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Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Max Baginski, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Sadakichi Hartmann, Peter Kropotkin · Native American Stories by Zitkala-Sa

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Mother Earth Volume one, number four, June
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  Speaker 1: nineteen six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: Earth number four. Missus Grundy by Verroca Daniels. Her will
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  Speaker 1: is law. She holds despotic sway. Her wont has been
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  Speaker 1: to show the narrow way wherein must tread the world.
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  Speaker 1: The bright the brave, from infancy to Dottard's gloomy grave. Obey,
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  Speaker 1: obey with sternness. She commands the high, the low, and
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  Speaker 1: greater little lands. She folds us all within her ample gown.
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  Speaker 1: A forward act is met with angry frown. The lisping
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  Speaker 1: babes are taught her local speech, her gait to walk,
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  Speaker 1: her blessings, to be seech. They laugh or cry, as
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  Speaker 1: Mistress says, they may in everything. The little thoughts obey.
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  Speaker 1: The youth know not save Missus Grundy's whims. They play
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  Speaker 1: her games, They sing her holy hymns. They question not
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  Speaker 1: except both truth and fiction. The old is right within
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  Speaker 1: her jurisdiction made matron man unto her meekly bow. She
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  Speaker 1: with contempt or ridicule may cow They dare not speak,
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  Speaker 1: or dress, or love or hate at variance with the
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  Speaker 1: program on her slate. Her subtle smile e'n men to
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  Speaker 1: thinkers grown are loathe to lose before its charm their
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  Speaker 1: prone with great ado, they publicly conform vain cowards, vain
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  Speaker 1: revolt must raise a storm. The indiscreet, when hidden from
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  Speaker 1: her sight, attempt to live as they consider right. Low
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  Speaker 1: walls have ears. The loyal everywhere the searchlight turn and
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  Speaker 1: loudly shalt beware. In tyranny, the mistress is supreme obedience.
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  Speaker 1: That is her endless theme. All countries ore, in city,
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  Speaker 1: town and glen. Her aid is sought by bosses over
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  Speaker 1: men of greed. Her brain is cunningly devised from ignorance,
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  Speaker 1: Her bulky bodies sized. When at her ease, she acts
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  Speaker 1: as judge and jury. But she's the mob when roused
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  Speaker 1: to fighting fury. Dame Grundy is by far the fiercest
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  Speaker 1: foe to every kind of progress that we know. So
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  Speaker 1: freedom is to her a poison thing. Who helds it
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  Speaker 1: he must her death knell ring. End of Section one.
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  Speaker 2: Section two of Mother Earth volume one, number one, four
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  Speaker 2: June nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 2: Trish Thompson. Mother Earth number four A greeting by Alexander Berkman.
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  Speaker 2: Dear friends, I am happy, inexpressibly happy to be in
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  Speaker 2: your midst again after an absence of fourteen long years
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  Speaker 2: passed amid the horrors and darkness of my Pennsylvania nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: Methinks the days of miracles are not passed. They say
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  Speaker 2: that nineteen hundred years ago a man was raised from
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  Speaker 2: the dead after having been buried for three days. They
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  Speaker 2: call it a great miracle. But I think the reserme
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  Speaker 2: direction from the peaceful slumber of a three days grave
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  Speaker 2: is not nearly so miraculous as the actual coming back
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  Speaker 2: to life from a living death of fourteen years duration.
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  Speaker 2: 'tis the twentieth century resurrection not based on ignorant crudulity,
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  Speaker 2: nor assisted by any Oriental jugglery. No travelers ever return,
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  Speaker 2: the poets say, from the land of Shades beyond the
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  Speaker 2: River Styx, And maybe it is a good thing for
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  Speaker 2: them that they don't. But you can see that there
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  Speaker 2: is an occasional exception even to that rule, For I
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  Speaker 2: have just returned from a hell the like of which,
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  Speaker 2: for human brutality and fiendish barbarity is not to be
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  Speaker 2: found even in the fire and brimstone creeds of our
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  Speaker 2: loving Christians. It was a moment of supreme joy when
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  Speaker 2: I felt the heavy chains that had bound me so
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  Speaker 2: long give way with the final clang of the iron
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  Speaker 2: doors behind me, and I suddenly found myself transported, as
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  Speaker 2: it were, from the dreary night of my prison existence,
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  Speaker 2: into the warm sunshine of the living day. And then,
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  Speaker 2: as I breathed the free air of the beautiful May morning,
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  Speaker 2: my first breath of freedom in fourteen years, it seemed
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  Speaker 2: to me as if a beautiful nature had waved her
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  Speaker 2: magic wand and marshaled her most alluring charms to welcome
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  Speaker 2: me into the world again. The sun, bathed in a
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  Speaker 2: sea of sapphire, seemed to shed his golden winged caresses
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  Speaker 2: upon me. Beautiful birds were intoning a sweet pean of
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  Speaker 2: joyful welcome. Green clad trees on the banks of the
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  Speaker 2: Allegheny were stretching out to me a hundred emerald arms
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  Speaker 2: in every little blade of grass seemed to lift its
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  Speaker 2: head a gad to me, and all nature whispered sweetly,
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  Speaker 2: welcome home. It was nature's beautiful springtime, the reawakening of
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  Speaker 2: life and joy and hope, and the spirit of springtime
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  Speaker 2: dwelt in my heart. I had been told before I
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  Speaker 2: left the prison that the world had changed so much
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  Speaker 2: during my long confinement that I would practically come back
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  Speaker 2: into a new and different world. I hoped it were true,
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  Speaker 2: for at the time when I retired from the world,
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  Speaker 2: or rather when I was retired from the world, that
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  Speaker 2: was a hundred years ago, for it happened in the
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  Speaker 2: nineteenth century. At that time, I say, the footsteps of
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  Speaker 2: the world were faltering under the heavy cross of oppression, injustice,
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  Speaker 2: and misery, and I could hear the anguish cry of
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  Speaker 2: the suffering multitudes even above the clanking of my own
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  Speaker 2: heavy chains. But all that is different now, I thought,
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  Speaker 2: as I left the prison. For have I not been
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  Speaker 2: told that the world had changed changed so much that,
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  Speaker 2: as they put it, its own mother wouldn't know it again?
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  Speaker 2: And that thought made me doubly happy, happy at the
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  Speaker 2: recovery of my own liberty, and happy in the fond
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  Speaker 2: hope that I should find my own great joy mirrored
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  Speaker 2: in and heightened by the happiness of my fellow men.
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  Speaker 2: Then I began to look around, and indeed I found
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  Speaker 2: the world changed, so changed, in fact, that I am
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  Speaker 2: now afraid to cross the street, lest lightning in the
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  Speaker 2: shape of a horseless car overtake me and strike me down.
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  Speaker 2: I also found a new race of beings, a race
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  Speaker 2: of red devils automobiles you call them. And I have
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  Speaker 2: been told about the winged children of thought, flying above
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  Speaker 2: our heads, talking through the air, you know, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: also through the hat perhaps, And here in New York
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  Speaker 2: you can ride on the ground, overground, above ground, underground,
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  Speaker 2: and without any ground at all. These and a thousand
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  Speaker 2: and one other inventions and discoveries have considerably changed the
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  Speaker 2: face of the world, but alas its face only. For
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  Speaker 2: as I looked further past the outer trappings, down into
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  Speaker 2: the heart of the world, I beheld the old, familiar,
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  Speaker 2: yet no less revolting sight of Mammon enthroned upon a
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  Speaker 2: dais of bleeding hearts. And I saw the ruthless wheels
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  Speaker 2: of the social juggernaut, slowly crushing the beautiful form of liberty.
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  Speaker 2: Lying prostrate on the ground, I saw men, women, and
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  Speaker 2: children without number sacrificed on the altar of the capitalistic Moloch,
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  Speaker 2: and I beheld a race of pitiful creatures stricken with
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  Speaker 2: the modern Saint Vitus's dance at the shrine of the
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  Speaker 2: Golden Calf. With an aching heart, I realized what I
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  Speaker 2: had been told in prison about the changed condition of
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  Speaker 2: the world was but a miserable myth, and my fond
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  Speaker 2: hope of returning into a new, regenerated world lay shattered
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  Speaker 2: at my feet. No, the world has not changed during
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  Speaker 2: my absence. I can find no improvement in the twentieth
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  Speaker 2: century society over that of the nineteenth, and in truth,
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  Speaker 2: it is not capable of any real improvement, For this
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  Speaker 2: society is the product of a civilization so self contradictory
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  Speaker 2: in its essential qualities, so stupendously absurd in its results,
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  Speaker 2: that the more we advance in this would be civilization,
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  Speaker 2: the less rational, the less human we become. Your twentieth
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  Speaker 2: century civilization is fitly characterized by the fact that, paradoxical
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  Speaker 2: as it may seem, the more we produce, the less
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  Speaker 2: we have, and the richer we get the poorer we are.
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  Speaker 2: Your pseudo civilization is of that quality which defeats its
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  Speaker 2: own ends, so that, notwithstanding the prodigious mechanical aids we
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  Speaker 2: possess in the production of all forms of wealth, the
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  Speaker 2: struggle for a existence is more savage, more ferocious today
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  Speaker 2: than it has been ever since the dawn of our civilization.
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  Speaker 3: But what is the.
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  Speaker 2: Cause of all this? What is wrong with our society
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  Speaker 2: and our civilization? Simply this a lie cannot prosper our
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  Speaker 2: whole social fabric. Our boasted civilization rests on the foundations
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  Speaker 2: of a lie, A most gigantic lie, the religious, political,
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  Speaker 2: and economic lie, A trying lie from whose fertile womb
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  Speaker 2: has issued a world of corruption, evils, shams, and unnameable crimes.
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  Speaker 2: There denuded of its tinsel trappings, your civilization stands revealed
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  Speaker 2: in all the evil reality of its unadorned shame, and
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  Speaker 2: 'tis a ghastly sighte a mass of corruption, in ever
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  Speaker 2: spreading cancer. Your false civilization is a disease, and capitalism
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  Speaker 2: is its most malignant form. Tis the acute stage which
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  Speaker 2: is breeding into the world a race of cowards, weaklings,
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  Speaker 2: and imbeciles, a race of mannequins, lacking the physical courage
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  Speaker 2: and mental initiative to think the thought and do the
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  Speaker 2: deed not inscribed in the book of Practice. A race
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  Speaker 2: of pigmies slaves to tradition and superstition, lacking all force
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  Speaker 2: of individuality, and rushing like wild maniacs toward the treacherous
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  Speaker 2: eddies of that social cataclysm which has swallowed the far
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  Speaker 2: mightier in greater nations of the ancient world. It is
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  Speaker 2: because of these things that I address myself to you,
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  Speaker 2: fellow men. Society is not changed during my absence, and
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  Speaker 2: yet to be saved. It needs to be changed. It needs,
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  Speaker 2: above all, real men, men and women of originality and individuality,
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  Speaker 2: men and women not afraid to brave the scornful contempt
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  Speaker 2: of the conventional mob, men and women brave enough to
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  Speaker 2: break from the ranks of custom and lead into new paths,
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  Speaker 2: men and women strong enough to smash the fatal social
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  Speaker 2: lockstep and lead us into new and happier ways. And
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  Speaker 2: because society has not changed, neither will I. Though the
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  Speaker 2: bloodthirsty Hyaena of the law has, in its wild revenge,
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  Speaker 2: despoiled me of the fourteen most precious blossoms in the
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  Speaker 2: garden of my life. Yet I will henceforth, as heretofore,
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  Speaker 2: consecrate what days are left to me, the service of
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  Speaker 2: that grand ideal, the wonderful power of which has sustained
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  Speaker 2: me through those years of torture. And I will devote
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  Speaker 2: all my energies and whatever ability I may have to
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  Speaker 2: that noblest of all causes of anew, regenerated and free humanity.
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  Speaker 2: And it shall be more than my sufficient reward to
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  Speaker 2: know that I have added, if ever so little, in
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  Speaker 2: breaking the shackles of superstition, ignorance, and tradition, and help
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  Speaker 2: to turn the tide of society from the narrow lane
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  Speaker 2: of its blind selfishness and self sufficient arrogance into the
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  Speaker 2: broad open road leading toward a true civilization, to the
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  Speaker 2: new and brighter day of freedom in brotherhood. End of
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  Speaker 2: Section two.
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  Speaker 1: Section three of Mother Earth, Volume one, number four, June
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  Speaker 1: nineteen six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: Earth number four, Henrik Ibsen by m B. I shall
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  Speaker 1: not attempt to confine him within the rigid lines of
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  Speaker 1: any literary circle. Nor shall I press him into the
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  Speaker 1: narrow frame of school or party, nor stamp upon him
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  Speaker 1: the distinctive label of any particular ism. He would break
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  Speaker 1: such fetters. His free spirit, his great individuality, would overflow
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  Speaker 1: the arbitrary confines of the sole truth, the only true principle.
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  Speaker 1: The waves of his soul would break down all artificial
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  Speaker 1: barriers and rush out to join the ever moving currents
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  Speaker 1: of life. A seer has died. He carried the flame
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  Speaker 1: torch of his art behind the scenes of society. He
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  Speaker 1: found there nothing but corruption. He tested the strength of
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  Speaker 1: our social foundations. Its pillars shook, they were rotten. The
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  Speaker 1: rays of his genius penetrated the darkness of popular ideals,
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  Speaker 1: the hollow pretenses of philistinism. Filled his ardent soul with
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  Speaker 1: disgust and pain. In this mood he wrote The League
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  Speaker 1: of Youth, in which he exposed the pettiness of bourgeois
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  Speaker 1: aspirations and the poverty of their ideals. In the Enemy
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  Speaker 1: of the People, Ibsen thunders his powerful protest against the
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  Speaker 1: democracy of stupidity, the tyrannous vulgarity of majority rule. Doctor Stockmann,
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  Speaker 1: that is Ibsen himself, how willing and eager the pigbies
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  Speaker 1: and yahoos would have been to stone him. What shameless unconventionality,
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  Speaker 1: what shocking daring, cried the Philistines when they beheld the
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  Speaker 1: characters protrayed in Nora the Doll's house, while duck and
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  Speaker 1: in the ghosts living pictures, revealing all the evil hidden
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  Speaker 1: by the mask of our sacred institutions, our holy hearthstone
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  Speaker 1: in rosmershoal Ibsing ignored even the inviolability of conscience. For
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  Speaker 1: there Ibsen showed how the sick conscience of Rosmer worked
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  Speaker 1: the ruin of Rebecca and himself by robbing them of
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  Speaker 1: the joy of life. The moralists howled long and loud.
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  Speaker 1: Has Ibsen no ideals? Does the accursed mightest touch of
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  Speaker 1: his mind dissolve everything, one very wholly of holies into
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  Speaker 1: the ashes of nothing? Thus spoke south sufficient arrogance. But
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  Speaker 1: can one read brand or peer gent and ask such questions?
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  Speaker 1: No heart so overflowed with human yearning, no soul ever
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  Speaker 1: breathed grander, nobler ideals than Henrik Ibsen. True, he did
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  Speaker 1: not prostrate himself before the idols of the conventional mob,
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  Speaker 1: nor did his sacrificial fires burn on the altar of
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  Speaker 1: mediocrity and scretanism. He did not bow the proud head
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  Speaker 1: before the craven images that the state and Church have
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  Speaker 1: created for the subjugation of the masses. To Ibsen's free soul,
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  Speaker 1: the morality of slaves was a nightmare. His ideal was individuality,
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  Speaker 1: the development of character. He loved the man that was
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  Speaker 1: brave enough to be himself. He immeasurably hated all that
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  Speaker 1: was false. He abhorred all that was petty and small.
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  Speaker 1: He loved that true naturalness, which, when most real, requires
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  Speaker 1: no effort. The most severe critic of Ibsen and his
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  Speaker 1: art was Ibsen himself. His attitude towards himself in his
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  Speaker 1: last work, When We Dead Awaken, is that of the
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  Speaker 1: most unprejudiced judge. What is the result. We long for life,
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  Speaker 1: yet we are eternally chasing will of the wisps. We
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice ourselves for things which rob us of our south.
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  Speaker 1: The castles we build prove houses made of cards upon
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  Speaker 1: the first touch, falling down. Instead of living, we philosophize
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  Speaker 1: our life is an esthetic counterfeit. A mind of great depth,
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  Speaker 1: a soul of prophetic vision, has passed away, yet not
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  Speaker 1: without leaving its powerful impress. For Henrik Ibsen stood upon
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  Speaker 1: the heights, and from their loftiest peaks we beheld with
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  Speaker 1: him the heavy fogs of the present, and through the
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  Speaker 1: rifts we saw the bright rays of a new sun,
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  Speaker 1: the promise of the dawn of a freer, stronger humanity.
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  Speaker 3: In the section three, section four of Mother Earth, Volume one,
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  Speaker 3: number four, June nineteen six.
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  Speaker 4: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 4: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 4: visit LibriVox do mother Earth number four, Section four, Observations
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  Speaker 4: and comment. Schopenhauer's advice to ignore fools and knaves and
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  Speaker 4: not to speak to them as the best method of
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  Speaker 4: keeping them at a distance, does not seem drastic enough
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  Speaker 4: in these days of the modern newspaper reporter nuisance. One
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  Speaker 4: may throw them out of the house, nail all the
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  Speaker 4: doors and windows, and stuff up all key holes. Still
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  Speaker 4: he will come. He will slide down through the chimney,
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  Speaker 4: squeeze through the sewer pipes, which, by the way, is
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  Speaker 4: the real field of activity of the journalistic profession. We
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  Speaker 4: anarchists are usually poor businessmen, with a few happy exceptions.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, still we shall have to form an insurance
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  Speaker 4: company against the slugging system of the reporters. Alexander Berkman
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  Speaker 4: barely had a chance to breathe free air when the
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  Speaker 4: newspaper scarecrows were let loose at his heels. Every suspicious
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  Speaker 4: looking man, woman and child in New York was assailed
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  Speaker 4: as to Berkman's whereabouts, without avail. Finally, these were they
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  Speaker 4: gentlemen hit upon two to ten East thirteenth Street. There
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  Speaker 4: the reporters made some miraculous discoveries two lonely hermits, utterly
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  Speaker 4: innocent of the ways of the world. And the impertinence
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  Speaker 4: of reporters were marked by the latter. They triumph. Never
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  Speaker 4: before had they hit upon such simpletons, of whom they
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  Speaker 4: could so easily learn all the secrets of the Fraternity
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  Speaker 4: of the Reds. Is it not the custom of your
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  Speaker 4: clan to delegate every three days one of your members
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  Speaker 4: to take the life of some ruler? They asked, one
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  Speaker 4: of the Reds smiled annoyingly, Only one insignificant life in
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  Speaker 4: three days? How little you know, the anarchists. I want
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  Speaker 4: you to understand, sirs, it is our what tos just
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  Speaker 4: five minutes for each act, which means eight hundred and
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  Speaker 4: sixty four lives and three days. This was more than
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  Speaker 4: the most hardened press detective could stand. They fled in terror.
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  Speaker 4: Karl Schure's, politician and career hunter by profession, died May fourteen.
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  Speaker 4: He was met at the gate of Hell by the
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  Speaker 4: secretary of that institution with the following question, were you
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  Speaker 4: not one of the enthusiasts for the battle of freedom
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  Speaker 4: in your young days? If the reports of my men
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  Speaker 4: are correct, and I am confident my men are more
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  Speaker 4: reliable than the majority of the newspaper men on your planet,
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  Speaker 4: you were even a revolutionist. Karl Schuers nodded, And why
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  Speaker 4: have you thrown your ideals and convictions overboard? There was
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  Speaker 4: no money in them, Karl replied sulkily. The Satanic secretary
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  Speaker 4: nodded to one of his stokers, saying, add five thousand
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  Speaker 4: tons of hard coal to our fires. Here we have
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  Speaker 4: a man that sold his soul for money. He deserves
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  Speaker 4: to roast a thousand times more than the ordinary sinner.
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  Speaker 4: No one considers a thief the patron saint of honesty,
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  Speaker 4: or as a liar expected to champion the truth. The
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  Speaker 4: hangman is not elected as president of a society for
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  Speaker 4: the preservation of human life. Why, then, in the name
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  Speaker 4: of common sense, do people continue to see in the
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  Speaker 4: state the seat of justice and the patron state of
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  Speaker 4: those whom it wrongs and outrages daily. If people would
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  Speaker 4: only look closer into the elements of the state, they
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  Speaker 4: would soon behold this trinity the thief, the liar, and
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  Speaker 4: the hangman. Free love is condemned, prostitution flourishes. The moralist,
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  Speaker 4: who is the best patron of the dens of prostitution,
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  Speaker 4: loudly proclaims the sanctity and purity of monogamy, the free
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  Speaker 4: expression of life's greatest force, love, must never be tolerated.
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  Speaker 4: On the other hand, it is perfectly respectable to receive
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  Speaker 4: a large sum of money from a millionaire father in
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: law for marrying his daughter. Rudolph Vonjeering, one of the
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: most distinguished theoreticians of jurisprudence in Europe, wrote many years
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  Speaker 4: ago the way in which one utilizes his wealth is
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: the best criterion of his character and degree of culture.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: The purpose that prompts the investment of his money is
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: the safest characterization of him. The accounts of expenditure speak
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: louder of a man's true nature than his diary. How
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: well these words apply to the richest of the rich
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: and to their methods of disposing of their capital. Take philanthropy,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: for instance, with its loud and common display, how it
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: humiliates those that receive, and how it overestimates the importance
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: of those that give. Philanthropy that steals in large quantities
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: and returns of its bounty in medicine drops that snatches
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: the last bite from the mouth of the people and
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: graciously gives them a few crumbs or a nod bone. Again,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: philanthropy as a money mania. In one instance, it feeds
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: the clergy on fat salaries so that they might proclaim
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: the virtue of self denial sobriety in prudence. In another instance,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: it builds Sunday schools for young numbskulls and political aspirants
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: who pretend to listen to the commonplace discourse about our
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Father in Heaven, who gives every true Christian and opportunity
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: to make money. Rather, would these milksops appreciate the advice
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: of the young nabob as to how to turn a
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: hundred dollar bill into a thousand. Philanthropy establishing scientific societies
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: for the investigation of the mode of life of fleas
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: or philanthropy excremating libraries, maintaining missionaries in China, or fostering
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: the research of breeding sea horses. Missus Vanderbilt has the
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: heels of her shoes set in diamonds, while another great
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: philanthropist has established a pension for aged parents. Indeed, the
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: stupidity and sad lack of imagination of our philanthropists are pitiful. However,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: when one realizes that they are responsible for the distress,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: the poverty and despair of the great masses of humanity,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: pity turns into anger and disgust with the society that
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: will endure it all. The Chicago papers report a blood
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: curdling story which has affected the Philistines like red effects
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: a turkey. Knowing the keen sense of humor of our readers,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: we herewith reprint the story Treason and blasphemy as an
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: outburst of anarchism all but broke up a meeting held
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  Speaker 4: last night in the Masonic Temple under the auspices of
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: the Spencer Whitman Center, at which the subject of crime
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: in Chicago was discussed by various speakers. The Reverend John
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: roche Stratton, pastor of the second Baptist Church was in
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: the midst of the discourse, detailing his theories with reference
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: to the subject in hand, when a voice from the
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: doorway shouted out of blasphemous expression. The cry was greeted
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: by hisses, but it was only a moment later that
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: that same voice called down with America, up with anarchy.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: There was a rush for the door. A tall young
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: man was the first to reach the offender, who is
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: said to have been Carl Hovell, associate editor of a
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: German newspaper. There was a blow and the blasphemer reeled
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: and fell against the wall. At the same moment, a
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: man said to be Terence Carlin, a member of a
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: prominent Chicago family, struck Hovell's assailant. He, in turn was
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: seized by Parker H. Sircum, chairman of the meeting, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: a man who gave the name of Ben Banseek. The
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: party struggled back and forth in the doorway, and the
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: disturbers were forced back to an ante room. Blows were
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: struck in a lusty fashion, and cries of police their
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: murdering them help rang out. Finally, the two disturbers made
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: as if to get out, and the arrival of a
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: watchman in uniform quieted them and their pursuers. It was, however,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: with ill grace, that the disturbers of the meeting were
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: allowed to leave, And as they passed through a door,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: cursing the law, the country and God, a girl, still
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: in her teens, broke through the crowd, and, turning to Hovell, said,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: that's all right, Father ben Banzig saved Chicago. There can
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: be no dispute about that. As to circum the editor
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: of tomorrow, he deserves recognition. I suggest that he be
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: awarded a toothbrush at the expensive city Hall. Our three friends,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Terence Carlin, Hovell, Mary Latter, who as I can authentically prove,
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: is not the daughter of Hippolyte Hovell, can console themselves
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: with the fact that their protest has done the names
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: of Whitman and Spencer more honor than the gas of
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: the Baptist preacher, that the suspiciously read noses of the
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: newspaper men should have smelt. The immoral conduct of Maxim
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Gorky was really very fortunate for the latter. He is
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: now relieved from the impertinence of interviewers in prominent personages.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: He must feel as if he had recovered from some
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: loathm disease. Immorality has, after all, many desirable what a
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: chickens gaggle fair sake, goats piously turn up their eyes,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: and the dear little piggies grunt. Well meaning people are
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: horrified that justice is making use of such creatures as
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Orchard and McParland against Moyer, Haywood and Pettybone. There is
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: nothing unusual in that the record of the American government
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: in its persecution against socialists and anarchists is by no
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: means so clean that one need be astonished that it
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: employs spies and perjures as its helpmates. The Lord has
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: developed from a good Christian into a good banker. He
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: destroyed more churches than vaults in San Francisco.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Into section four, Section five of Mother Earth Volume one,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: number four, June nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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• 30:07
  Speaker 2: by Trish Thompson, mother Earth number four. A letter by
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Emma Goldman, Chicago, June second, nineteen o six.
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  Speaker 5: Dear editor, I hope you have.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Not been trying to relieve your feelings by using language
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: dangerous to your soul's salvation. I can sympathize with Judo. However,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: it was impossible for me to send the promised article
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: for m E, who indeed could expect a bride of
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: two weeks to waste time upon magazine articles. I hope
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: you have read, dear reports of my marriage, though your
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: silence would indicate that you have either neglected to read
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the important news, or that your usual lack of faith
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: in the truth and honesty of the press has not
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: permitted you to credit the story. It is high time,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: dear friend, that you get rid of your German skepticism.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: You know I esteem your judgment, but when it comes
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: to doubting anything the newspapers say, I draw the line.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: But reporters do not know about anarchists, and especially about
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: your publisher is not worth knowing. According to their great wisdom,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I not only incited men to remove the crowned heads
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: of various countries, but I have done verse. I have
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: incited them to marry me. And then they proved unwilling
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to love honor and obey the order of our secret
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: societies to blow up all sacred institutions, I sent them
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: about their business. Much as I realize the importance of
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: my articles for Mother Earth, you cannot expect me to
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: sacrifice my wifely duty to my lord and master.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: For Earth's sake.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I have always held to the opinion that there must
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: be absolute confidence between publisher and editor on all matters
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: except the receipts. Therefore, I have to confess that my
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: newly vetted husband, who has just graduated from the University
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: of the Western Penitentiary, the curriculum of which is lots
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: of liberty, leisure and enjoyment, objects to the drudgery of
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: an agitator and a publisher. In justice to him, I
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: dare not do more than write letters all day, address
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: meetings every evening, and enjoy the love and kindness of
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: the comrades till early morning hours. There then shall I
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: find time to write articles.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: For the Mother Earth.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: But to be in keeping with the serious, in dignified
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: tone of our valuable magazine, and especially with you, dear editor,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I want to say that my meetings were very successful,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: and that Mother Earth is being received with great favor
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: in every city. Nearly five hundred copies were sold here
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: after reading the brilliant reports in the Chicago papers, and
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: seeing the handsome, refined policemen at the various meetings, I
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: am not surprised that our magazine is being appreciated. Apropos
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: of the Chicago police. Just fancy I have actually forced
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: them out of their uniforms. I hope this villnard conjure
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: up the horrible picture of Chicago's finest parating the city
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: in Adam's costume. Not that only Chief of Police Collins
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: was so outraged over my gentle criticism of his dear
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: little boys at one of the woodworkers meetings that he
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: gave strict orders no officer should again appear at a
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: public meeting in uniform where that awful Emma Gorman is
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: humiliating and degrading the emblem of authority and law. After this,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I hope you will never again doubt the importance of
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: public min meetings and the great and far reaching influence
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  Speaker 2: of my speaking. I shall soon be VIDI if I
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: survive my tour the police and the press, I shall
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: then try to make up for my sins in the
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: July number of Mother Earth, provided you will let me
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: recuperate in your editorial care and affection Emma Goldman and
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: of section five.
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  Speaker 4: Section six of Mother Earth Volume one, number four, June
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: nineteen six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: please visit LibriVox dot org. Mother Earth number four. Libertarian
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Instruction by Emil Javillon. Among the important duties of anarchus,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: libertarian instructions should occupy the first place as revolutionary propaganda.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: It is the most effective. Tolstoy and Yasnana Poyana Recluse
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: at Brussel, Paul Robin at Simpius, the group of the
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Free School at Paris have inaugurated attempts during the period
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: of daring way have witness of late years. Far from
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: mixing education with instruction, the former should be considered as
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: the natural consequence of the latter. Our ideas should never
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: be imposed by an education too specialized, narrow or sectarian,
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: but by means a full and all round instruction which
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: opens the mind to criticism and makes it accessible to
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: the power of truth, which is our strength and which
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: will complete the forming of the character. Our instruction should
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: be integral, rational and mixed. Integral, because it will tend
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: to develop the whole being and make a complete free
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: ensemble equally progressive at all nine intellectual, physical, manual, and professional.
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  Speaker 4: And this from the earliest age rational because it will
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: be based on reason and in conformity with actual science,
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  Speaker 4: and not on faith, on the development of personal freedom
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  Speaker 4: and independence, and not on that of piety and obedience
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: on the abolition of the fiction God, the eternal and
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: absolute cause of subjection. Mixed because it favors the co
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: education of the sexes and a constant, fraternal, familiar company
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  Speaker 4: of children, boys and girls, which gives to the character
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: of their manners a special earnestness. To the scientific construction.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Must be added manual apprenticeship, instruction, with which it is
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: in a constant connection of balance and reciprocity, and also
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: esthetic construction, music, art, et cetera, which, in point of
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: view of an integral development, has certainly not a small importance.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: To turn our attention towards the child, to encourage the
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: development of its initiatives, to impress it with the sentiment
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  Speaker 4: of its dignity, to preserve it from cowardice and falsehood,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: to make it observe the pros and cons of all
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: social conceptions to educate it for the struggle that is
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: the great work, scarcely yet begun, which awaits us. That
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: will be the task of the nearest future, if we
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: will act logically and firmly. And of section six.
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  Speaker 6: Section seven of Mother Earth, Volume one, number four, June
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  Speaker 6: nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
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  Speaker 6: to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Louise J. Bell,
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: Mother Earth number four, The Antichrist from The Antichrist by
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Alexander Tilley, translated by Thomas Common Publishers,
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: mac Millanan Company, New York. I make war against this
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: theological instinct. I have found traces of it everywhere. Whoever
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: has theological blood in his veins is from the very
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: beginning ambiguous and disloyal with respect to everything. The pathos
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: which develops therefrom calls itself belief the closing of the
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: eye once for all, with respect to one's self, so
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: as not to suffer from the site of incurable falsity,
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: A person makes for himself a morality, a virtue, a sanctity,
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: out of this erroneous perspective towards all things, he unites
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: the good conscience to the false mode of seeing. He
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: demands that no other mode of perspective be any longer
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: of value. After he has made his own sacrosanct with
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: the names of God, Salvation, and Eternity, I have digged
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: out the theologist instinct everywhere. It is the most diffused,
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: the most peculiarly subterranean form of falsity that exists on earth.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: What a theologian feels as true must needs be false.
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  Speaker 6: One has therein almost a criterion of truth. It is
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: his most fundamental self preservative instinct, which forbids reality to
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: be held in honor, or even to find expression on
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: any point. As far as theologist's influence extends, the judgment
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: of value is turned right about. The concepts of true
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: and false are necessarily reversed. What is most injurious to
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: life is here called true. What raises, elevates, affirms, justifies,
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: and makes it triumph is called false. Let us not
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: underestimate this. We ourselves, we free spirits, are already a
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: transvaluation of all values, an incarnate declaration of war against
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: and triumph over all old concepts of true and untrue.
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: The most precious discernments into things are the latest discovered.
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: The most precious discernments, however, are the methods. All methods,
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: all presuppositions of our present day science, have for millenniums
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: been held in the most profound contempt by reason of them.
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: A person was excluded from intercourse with honest men. He
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: passed for an enemy of God, a despiser of truth,
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: A possessed person as a scientific man, a person was
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: a chandalah. We have had the entire pathos of mankind
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: against us, their concept of that which truth ought to be,
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: which the service of truth ought to be. Every thou
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: shalt has been hitherto directed against us. Our objects, our practices,
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: our quiet, prudent, mistrustful mode, all appeared to mankind as
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: absolutely unworthy and contemptible. In the end, one might, with
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: some reasonableness, ask oneself if it was not really an
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: esthetic taste which kept mankind in such long blindness. They
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: wanted a picturesque effect from truth. They wanted, in like manner,
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: the knowing ones to operate strongly on their senses. Our
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: modesty was longest against the taste of mankind Oh, how
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: they made that out these turkey cocks of God. The
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: Christian concept of God, God as God of the sick,
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: God as cobweb spinner, God as Spirit is one of
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: the most corrupt concepts of God ever arrived at on Earth.
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: It represents, perhaps the gage of low water in the
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: descending development of the God type, God degenerated to the
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and its
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: eternal yea. In God hostility announced to life, to nature,
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: to the will to life. God as the formula for
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: every calumny of this world, for every lie of another world.
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: In God nothingness deified the will to nothingness, declared wholly
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: that the strong races of Northern Europe have not thrust
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: from themselves the Christian God is verily no honor to
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: their religious talent, not to speak of their taste. They
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: ought to have got the better of such a sickly
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: and decrepit product of decadence. There lies a curse upon
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: them them because they have not got the better of it.
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: They have incorporated sickness, old age, and contradiction into all
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: their instincts. They have created no God since two millenniums
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: almost and not a single new God, but still continuing
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: and as if persisting by right, as an ultimatum and
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: maximum of the god shaping force of the creator spiritus
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: in man, this pitiable God of Christian monotonatheism, this hybrid
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: image of ruin derived from nullity concept and contradiction, in
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: which all decadent instincts, all cowardices, and lassitudes of soul
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: have their sanction. Has the celebrated story been really understood,
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: which stands at the commencement of the Bible, the story
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: of God's mortal terror of science? It has not been understood.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: This priest book par Excellence begins appropriately with the great
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: inner difficulty of the priest. He has only one great danger. Consequently,
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: God has only one great danger. The old God, entire Spirit,
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: entire high priest, entire perfection, promenades in his garden. He
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: only wants pastime against tedium, even God's struggle in vain.
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  Speaker 6: What does he do? He contrives man man is entertaining.
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: But behold, man also wants past time. The pity of God,
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: for the only distress which belongs to all paradises has
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: no bounds. He forthwith created other animals. Besides the first
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: mistake of God. Man did not find the animals entertaining.
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: He ruled over them, but did not even want to
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: be an animal. God consequently created woman, and in fact
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: there was now an end of tedium, but of other
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: things also. Woman was the second mistake of God. Woman
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: is in her essence a serpent herah. Every priest knows
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: that from woman comes all the mischief in the world.
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: Every priest knows that likewise, consequently, science also comes from her.
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: Only through woman did man learn to taste of the
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: tree of knowledge. What had happened? The old God was
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: seized by a mortal terror. Man himself had become his
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: greatest mistake. He had created a rival. Science makes godlike.
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: It is at an end with priests and gods. If
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: man becomes scientific, moral science is the thing forbidden In itself,
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  Speaker 6: it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the
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  Speaker 6: germ of all sin, original sin. This alone is morality.
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: Thou shalt not know. The rest follows therefrom by his
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: mortal terror. God was not prevented from being shrewd. How
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: does one defend oneself against science that was for a
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: long time his main problem? Answer away with man out
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: of paradise, happiness and leisure lead to thought. All thoughts
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: are bad thoughts. Man shall not think, And the priest
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: in himself contrives distress, death, the danger of life in pregnancy,
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: every kind of misery, old age, weariness, and above all sickness.
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: Nothing but expedience in the struggle against science. Distress does
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: not permit man to think, and nevertheless frightful. The edifice
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: of knowledge towers aloft heaven, storming, dawning on the gods.
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: What to do? The old God contrives war, He separates
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: the peoples. He brings it about that men mutually annihilate
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: one another. The priests have always had need of war. War,
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: among other things, a great disturber of science. Incredible knowledge,
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  Speaker 6: the emancipation from the priest augments even in spite of wars,
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  Speaker 6: and a final resolution is arrived at by the old God.
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  Speaker 6: Man has become scientific. There is no help for it.
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  Speaker 6: He must be drowned. I have been understood. The beginning
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  Speaker 6: of the Bible contains the entire higher psychology of the priest.
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  Speaker 6: The priest knows only one great danger, that is science,
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  Speaker 6: the sound concept of cause and effect. But science flourishes
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  Speaker 6: on the whole only under favorable circumstances. One must have
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  Speaker 6: superfluous time, one must have superfluous intellect in order to perceive. Consequently,
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  Speaker 6: man must be made unfortunate. This has at all times
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  Speaker 6: been the logic of the priest. One makes out what
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  Speaker 6: has only thereby come into the world. In accordance with
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  Speaker 6: this logic, sin, the concepts of guilt and punishment the
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  Speaker 6: whole moral order of the world, have been devised in
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  Speaker 6: opposition to science, in opposition to a severance of man
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  Speaker 6: from the priest. Man is not to look outwards. He
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  Speaker 6: is to look inwards into himself. He is not to
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  Speaker 6: look prudently and cautiously into things like a learner. He
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  Speaker 6: is not to look at all. He is to suffer.
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  Speaker 6: And he is so to suffer as to need the priest.
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  Speaker 6: Always a savior is needed. The concepts of guilt and punishment,
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  Speaker 6: inclusive of the doctrines of grace, of salvation, and of
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  Speaker 6: forgiveness lies through and through and without any psychological reality,
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  Speaker 6: have been contrived to destroy the causal sense in man.
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  Speaker 6: They are an attack on the concepts of cause and effect,
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  Speaker 6: and not an attack with the fists, with the knife,
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  Speaker 6: with honesty, in hate and love, but springing from the
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  Speaker 6: most cowardly, most deceitful, and most ignoble instincts, a priest's attack,
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  Speaker 6: a parasite's attack, a vampirism of pale subterranean blood suckers.
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  Speaker 6: When the natural consequences of a deed are no longer natural,
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  Speaker 6: but are supposed to be brought about by the conceptual
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  Speaker 6: specters of superstition, by gods, by spirits, by souls, as
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  Speaker 6: mere moral consequences, as reward, punishment, suggestion, or means of education,
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  Speaker 6: the prerequisite of perception has been destroyed. The greatest crime
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  Speaker 6: against mankind has been committed. Sin repeated once more. This
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  Speaker 6: form of human self violation par excellence has been invented
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  Speaker 6: for the purpose of making impossible science, culture, every kind
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  Speaker 6: of elevation and nobility of man. The priest rules by
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  Speaker 6: the invention of sin. I condemn Christianity. I bring against
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  Speaker 6: the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that
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  Speaker 6: ever an accuser has taken into his mouth. It is
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  Speaker 6: to me the greatest of all imaginable corruptions. It has
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  Speaker 6: had the will to the ultimate corruption that is at
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  Speaker 6: all possible. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched with
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  Speaker 6: its depravity. It has made a worthlessness out of every value,
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: a lie out of every truth, a baseness of soul,
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: out of every straightforwardness. Let a person still dare to
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  Speaker 6: speak to me of its humanitarian blessings, to do away
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  Speaker 6: with any state of distress, whatsoever was counter to its
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  Speaker 6: profoundest expediency. It lived by states of distress. It created
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  Speaker 6: states of distress in order to perpetuate itself eternally, the
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  Speaker 6: worm of sin. For example, it is only the Church
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  Speaker 6: that has enriched mankind with this state of distress. Humanitarian
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  Speaker 6: blessings of Christianity to breed out of humanitas, a self contradiction,
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: an art of self violation, a will to the lie
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  Speaker 6: at any price, a repugnance, a contempt for all good
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  Speaker 6: and straightforward instincts. Those are for me blessings of Christianity.
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  Speaker 6: Parasitism as the soul praxis of the Church drinking out
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  Speaker 6: all blood, all love, all hope for life with its
• 59:29
  Speaker 6: anemic ideal of holiness, the other world as the will
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  Speaker 6: to the negation of every reality, the Cross as the
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: rallying sign for the most subterranean conspiracy that has ever
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  Speaker 6: existed against healthiness, beauty, well constitutedness, courage, intellect, benevolence of
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  Speaker 6: soul against life itself, this eternal accusation of Christianity. I
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  Speaker 6: shall write on all walls wherever there are walls, I
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  Speaker 6: have letters for making even the blind sea. I call
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  Speaker 6: Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: the one great instinct of revenge for which no expedient
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean.
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  Speaker 7: Mean.
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  Speaker 6: I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind. End
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  Speaker 6: of section seven. Recording by Louise J. Bell, Sebastopol, California.
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  Speaker 8: Section eight of Mother Earth, Volume one, number four, June
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  Speaker 8: Brain Work and Manual Work by Peter Kropotkin. In olden times,
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  Speaker 8: men of science, and especially those who have done most
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  Speaker 8: to forward the growth of natural philosophy, did not despise
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  Speaker 8: manual work and handicraft. Galileo made his telescopes with his
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  Speaker 8: own hands. Newton learned in his boyhood the art of
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  Speaker 8: managing tools. He exercised his young mind in contriving most
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  Speaker 8: ingenious machines, and when he began his researches in optics,
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  Speaker 8: he was able himself to grind the lenses for his instruments,
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  Speaker 8: and himself to make the well known telescope, which for
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  Speaker 8: its time was a fine piece of workmanship. Leibniz was
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  Speaker 8: fond of inventing machines, windmills, and carriages to be moved
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  Speaker 8: without horses, preoccupied his mind as much as mathematical and
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  Speaker 8: philosophical speculations. Linnaeus became a botanist while helping his father,
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  Speaker 8: a practical gardener, in his daily work. In short, with
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 8: our great geniuses, handicraft was no obstacle to abstract researches.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 8: It rather favored them. On the other hand, if the
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  Speaker 8: workers of old found but few opportunities for mastering science,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: many of them had at least their intelligence, as stimulated
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 8: by the very variety of work which was performed in
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 8: the then unspecialized workshops, and some of them had the
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 8: benefit of familiar intercourse with men of science. What and
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 8: Renny were friends with Professor Robinson Brindley, the roadmaker. Despite
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 8: his fourteen pence a day wages, enjoyed intercourse with educated men,
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  Speaker 8: and thus developed his remarkable engineering faculties. The son of
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 8: a well to do family could idle at a wheelwright
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  Speaker 8: shop so as to become later on a Smeaton or
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 8: a Stevenson. We have changed all that under the pretext
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 8: of division of labor. We have sharply separated the brain
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: worker from the manual worker. The masses of the workmen
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 8: did not receive more scientific education than their grandfathers did,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: but they have been deprived of the education of even
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 8: the small workshop. While their boys and girls are driven
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 8: into a mine or factory from the age of thirteen,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 8: and there they soon forget the little they may have
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: learned at school. As to the men of science, they
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 8: despise manual labor. How few of them would be able
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 8: to make a telescope or even a plainer instrument. Most
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 8: of them are not capable of even designing a scientific instrument,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: and when they have given a vague suggestion to the
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: instrument maker, they leave it with him to invent the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: apparatus they need. Nay, they have raised the contempt of
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  Speaker 8: manual labor to the height of a theory. The man
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 8: of science, they say, must discover the laws of nature.
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  Speaker 8: The civil engineer must apply them, and the worker must
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 8: execute in steel or wood, in iron or stone, the
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  Speaker 8: patterns devised by the engineer. He must work with machines
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 8: invented for him, not by him, no matter if he
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 8: does not understand them and cannot improve them. The scientific
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 8: man and the scientific engineer will take care of the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: progress of science and industry. It may be objected that, nevertheless,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: there is a class of men who belong to none
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: of the above three divisions. When young, they have been
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: manual workers, and some of them continue to be. But
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: owing to some happy circumstances, they have succeeded in acquiring
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: some scientific knowledge, and thus they have combined science with handicraft.
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  Speaker 8: Surely there are such men. Happily enough, there is a
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: nucleus of men who have escaped so much advocated specialization
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 8: of labor, and it is precisely to them that the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 8: industry owes its chief recent inventions. But in Old Europe,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 8: at least, they are the exceptions. They are the irregulars,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 8: the Cossacks, who have broken the ranks and pierced the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 8: screens so carefully erected between the classes. And they are
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 8: so few in comparison with the ever growing requirements of
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 8: industry and of science, as well as I am about
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: to prove that, all over the world we hear complaint
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 8: about the scarcity of precisely such men. What is the meaning,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: in fact, of the outcry for technical education which has
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: been raised at one and the same time in England,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 8: in France, in Germany, in the States, and in Russia,
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  Speaker 8: if it does not express a general dissatisfaction with the
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 8: present division into scientists, scientific engineers and workers. Listen to
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: those who know industry, and you will see that the
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  Speaker 8: substance of their complaint is this. The worker, whose task
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 8: has been specialized by the permanent division of labor, has
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: lost the intellectual interest in his labor. And it is
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 8: especially so in the Great Indians. He has lost his
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 8: inventive powers. Formerly he invented very much. Manual workers, not
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 8: men of science, nor trained engineers, have invented or brought
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  Speaker 8: to perfection the prime motors and all that mass of
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 8: machinery which has revolutionized industry for the last hundred years.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 8: But since the great factory has been enthroned, the worker,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 8: depressed by the monotony of his work, invents no more.
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  Speaker 8: What can a weaver invent who merely supervises four looms
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 8: without knowing anything either about their complicated movements or how
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 8: the machines grew to be what they are. What can
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 8: a man invent who is condemned for life to bind
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 8: together the ends of two threads with the greatest celerity,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 8: and knows nothing beyond making a knot At the outset
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 8: of modern industry, three generations of workers have invented. Now
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 8: they cease to do so. As to the inventions of
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 8: the engineers specially trained for devising machines, they are either
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  Speaker 8: devoid of genius or not practical enough. Those nearly to
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 8: nothings of which Sir Frederick Bramwell spoke once at Bath
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  Speaker 8: a missing in their inventions, knows nothings which can be
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  Speaker 8: learned in the workshop only, and which permitted A Murdoch
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  Speaker 8: and the SOHO workers to make a practical engine of
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 8: What's schemes. None but he who knows the machine, not
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 8: in its drawings and models only, but in its breathing
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 8: and throbbings, who unconsciously thinks of it whilst standing by it,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 8: can really improve it. Smeaton and Newcommon surely were excellent engineers,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 8: but in their engines a boy had to open the
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 8: steam valve at each stroke of the piston, and it
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 8: was one of those boys who once managed to connect
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 8: the valve with the remainder of the machine so as
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 8: to make it open automatically, while he ran away to
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 8: play with other boys. But in the modern machinery there
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 8: is no room left for naive improvements of that kind.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 8: Scientific education on a wide scale has become necessary for
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: further inventions, and that education is refused to the workers,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 8: so that there is no issue out of the difficulty
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 8: unless scientific education and handicraft are combined together, unless integration
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 8: of knowledge takes the place of the present divisions, such
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 8: as the real substance of the present movement in favor
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 8: of technical education. But instead of bringing to public consciousness
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 8: the perhaps unconscious motives of the present discontent, instead of
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 8: widening the views of the discontented and discussing the problem
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 8: to its full extent, the mouthpieces of the movement do
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 8: not mostly rise above the shopkeeper's view of the question.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 8: Some of them indulge in jingo talk about crushing all
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 8: foreign industries out of competition, while the others see in
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 8: technical education nothing but a means of somewhat improving the
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 8: flesh machine of the factory, and of transferring a few
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 8: workers into the upper class of trained engineers. Such an
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 8: ideal may satisfy them, but it cannot satisfy those who
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 8: keep in view the combined interests of science and industry
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: and consider both as means for raising humanity to another level.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 8: We maintain that, in the interests of both science and industry,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 8: as well as of society as a whole, every human being,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 8: without distinction of birth, ought to receive such an education
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 8: as would enable him or her to combine a thorough
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 8: knowledge of science with a thorough knowledge of handicraft. We
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 8: fully recognize the necessity of specialization of knowledge, but we
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 8: maintain that specialization must follow general education, and that general
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 8: education must be given in science and handicraft alike. To
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 8: the division of society into brain workers and manual workers,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 8: we oppose the combination of both kinds of activities, and
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 8: instead of technical education, which means the maintenance of the
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 8: present division between brain work and manual work, we advocate
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 8: the educacion integral, or complete education, which means the disappearance
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: of that pernicious distinction. Plainly stated the aims of the
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 8: school under this system ought to be the following to
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 8: give such an education that, on leaving school at the
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 8: age of eighteen or twenty, each boy and each girl
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 8: should be endowed to the thorough knowledge of science, such
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 8: a knowledge as might enable them to be useful workers
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 8: in science, and at the same time to give them
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 8: a general knowledge of what constitutes the basis of technical training,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 8: and such a skill in some special trade as would
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 8: enable each of them to take his or her place
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 8: in the grand world of the manual production of wealth.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 8: I know that many will find that aim too large
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 8: or even impossible to attain. But I hope that if
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 8: they have the patience to read the following pages, they
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 8: will see that we require nothing beyond what can be
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 8: easily attained. In fact, it has been attained, and what
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 8: has been done on a small scale could be done
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 8: on a wider scale were it not for the economical
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 8: and social causes which prevent any serious reform from being
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 8: accomplished in our miserably organized society. The experiment has been
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 8: made at the Moscow Technical School for twenty consecutive years,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 8: with many hundreds of boys, and, according to the testimonies
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 8: of the most competent judges at the exhibitions of Brussels, Philadelphia,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 8: Vienna and Paris. The experiment has been a success. The
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 8: Moscow School admits boys not older than fifteen, and it
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 8: requires from boys that age nothing but a substantial knowledge
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 8: of geometry and algebra, together with the usual knowledge of
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 8: their mother tongue. Younger pupils are received in the preparatory classes.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 8: The school is divided into two sections, the mechanical and
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 8: the chemical. But as I personally know the better the former,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 8: and as it is also the more important with reference
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 8: to the question before us, so I shall limit my
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 8: remarks to the education given in the mechanical section. After
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 8: a five or six years stay at the school, the
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 8: students leave it with a thorough knowledge of higher mathematics, physics,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 8: mechanics and connected sciences, so thorough indeed that it is
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 8: not second to that acquired in the best mathematical faculties
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 8: of the most eminent European universities. When myself a student
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 8: of the mathematical faculty of the Saint Petersburg University, I
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 8: had the opportunity of comparing the knowledge of the students
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: at the Moscow Technical School with our own. I saw
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 8: the courses of higher geometry some of them had compiled
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 8: for the use of their comrades. I admired the facility
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 8: with which they applied the integral calculus to dynamical problems,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 8: and I came to the conclusion that while we university
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 8: students had more knowledge of a general character, they, the
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 8: students of the technical school, were much more advanced in
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 8: higher geometry, and especially in the applications of higher mathematics
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 8: to the most intricate problems of dynamics, the theories of
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 8: heat and elasticity. But while we, the students of the university,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 8: hardly knew the use of our hands, the students of
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 8: the technical school fabricated with their own hands and without
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 8: the help of professional workmen, fine steam engines, from the
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 8: heavy boiler to the last, finely turned screw, agricultural machinery,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 8: and scientific apparatus, all for the trade, and they received
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 8: the highest awards for the work of their hands at
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 8: the international exhibitions. They were signed typically educated skilled workers,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 8: workers with university education, highly appreciated even by the Russian
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 8: manufacturers who so much distrusted science. Now the methods by
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 8: which these wonderful results were achieved with ease in science
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 8: learning from memory was not in honour, while independent research
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 8: was favored by all means. Science was taught hand in
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 8: hand with its applications, and what was learned in the
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 8: school room was applied in the workshop. Great attention was
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 8: paid to the highest abstractions of geometry as a means
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 8: for developing imagination and research. As to the teaching of handicraft,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 8: the methods were quite different from those which proved a
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 8: failure at the Cornell University, and differed in fact from
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 8: those used in most technical schools. The student was not
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 8: sent to a workshop to learn some special handicraft and
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 8: to earn his existence as soon as possible, but the
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 8: teaching of technical skill was prosecuted according to a scheme
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 8: elaborated by the founder of the school, M. Devalos, and
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 8: now applied also so at Chicago Boston, in the same
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 8: systematical way as laboratory work is taught in the universities.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 8: It is evident that drawing was considered as the first
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 8: step in technical education. Then the student was brought first
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 8: to the carpentige workshop or rather laboratory, and there he
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 8: was thoroughly taught to execute all kinds of carpentry and joinery.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 8: No efforts were spared in order to bring the pupil
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 8: to a certain perfection in that branch the real basis
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 8: of all trades. Later on he was transferred to the
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 8: turner's workshop, where he was taught to make in wood
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 8: the patterns of those things which he would have to
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 8: make in metal in the following workshops. The foundry followed,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 8: and there he was taught to cast those parts of
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 8: machines which he had prepared in wood. And it was
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 8: only after he had gone through the first three stages
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 8: that he was admitted to the smiths and engineering workshops.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 8: As for the perfection of the mechanical work of the students,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 8: I cannot do better than refer to the reports of
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 8: the juries and the above named exhibitions. In America, the
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 8: same system has been introduced in its technical part, first
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 8: in the Chicago Manual Training School and later on in
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 8: the Boston Technical School. The best I am told of
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 8: the sort, and in this country, or rather in Scotland,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 8: I found the system applied with full success for some
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 8: years under the direction of doctor Ogilvie at Gordon's College
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 8: in Aberdeen. It is the Moscow or Chicago system on
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 8: a limited scale, while receiving substantial scientific education. The pupils
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 8: are also trained in the workshops, but not for one
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 8: special trade, as it unhappily too often is the case.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 8: They passed through the carpenter's workshop, the casting in metals,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 8: and the engineering workshop, and in each of these they
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 8: learned from the foundations of each of the three trades
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 8: sufficiently well for supplying the school itself with a number
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 8: of useful things. Besides, as far as I could ascertain
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 8: from what I saw in the geographical and physical classes,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 8: as also in the chemical laboratory, the system of through
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 8: the hand to the brain and vice versa is in
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 8: full swing, and it is attended with the best success.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 8: The boys work with the physical instruments, and they study
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 8: geography in the field instruments in hands as well as
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 8: in the class room. Some of their surveys filled my heart,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 8: as an old geographer, with joy. It is evident that
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 8: the Gordon's College Industrial Department is not a mere copy
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 8: of any foreign school. On the contrary, I cannot help
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 8: thinking that if Aberdeen has made that excellent move towards
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 8: combining science with handicraft, the move was a natural outcome
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 8: of what has been practiced long since on a smaller
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 8: scale in the Aberdeen daily schools. The Moscow Technical School
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 8: surely is not an ideal school. What this school is
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 8: now I don't know. In the last years of Alexander
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 8: Second's reign, it was wrecked, like so many other good
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 8: institutions of the early part of his reign. It totally
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 8: neglects the humanitarian education of the young men. But we
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 8: must recognize that the Moscow experiment, not to speak of
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 8: hundreds of other partial experiments, has perfectly well proved the
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 8: possibility of combining a scientific education of a very high
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 8: standard with the education which is necessary for becoming an
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 8: excellent skilled laborer. It has proved moreover that the best
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 8: means for producing really good skilled laborers is to seize
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 8: the bull by the horns and to grasp the educational
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 8: problem in its great features, instead of trying to give
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 8: some special skill in some handicraft. And it has shown
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 8: also what can be obtained without over pressure if a
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 8: rational economy of the scholar's time is always kept in view,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 8: and theory goes hand in hand with practice. Viewed in
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: this light, the Moscow results do not seem extraordinary at all,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 8: and still better result may be expected if the same
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 8: principles are applied from the earliest years of education. Waste
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 8: of time is the leading feature of our present education.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 8: Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 8: what is not rubbish is taught so as to make
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 8: us waste over it as much time as possible. Our
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 8: present methods of teaching originate from a time when the
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 8: accomplishments required from an educated person were extremely limited, and
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 8: they have been maintained notwithstanding the immense increase of knowledge
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 8: which must be conveyed to the scholar's mind, since science
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 8: has so much widened its former limits, hence the over
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 8: pressure in schools, and hence also the urgent necessity of
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 8: totally revising both the subjects and the methods of teaching
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 8: according to the new wants, and to the examples already
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 8: given here and there by separate schools and separate teachers.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 8: It is evident that the years of childhood ought not
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 8: to be spent so uselessly as they are now. German
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 8: teachers have shown how the very plays of children can
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 8: be made instrumental in conveying to the childish mind some
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 8: concrete knowledge in both geometry and mathematics. The children who
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 8: have made the squares of the theorem of Pythagoras out
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: of pieces of colored cardboard. Will not look at the
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 8: theorem when it comes in geometry as on a mere
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 8: instrument of torture devised by the teachers and the lafe.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 8: Less so if they apply it as the carpenters do.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 8: Complicated problems of arithmetic, which so much harassed us in
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 8: our boyhood, are easily solved by children seven and eight
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 8: years old, if they are put in the shape of
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 8: interesting puzzles, and if the Kinderdartan German teachers often make
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 8: of it a kind of barrack in which each movement
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 8: of the child is regulated beforehand, has often become a
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 8: small prison for the little ones. The idea which presided
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 8: at its foundation is nevertheless true. In fact, it is
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 8: almost impossible to imagine without having tried it. How many
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 8: sound notions of nature, habits of classification, and taste for
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 8: natural sciences can be conveyed to the children's minds. And
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 8: if a series of concentric courses adapted to the various
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 8: phases of development of the human being were generally accepted
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 8: in education, the first series in all sciences save sociology
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 8: could be taught before the age of ten or twelve,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 8: so as to give a general idea of the universe.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 8: The Earth in its inhabitsdents the chief physical, chemical, zoological,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 8: and botanical phenomena, leaving the discovery of the laws of
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 8: those phenomena to the next series of deeper and more
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 8: specialized studies. On the other side, we all know how
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 8: children like to make toys themselves, how they gladly imitate
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 8: the work of full grown people if they see them
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 8: at work in the workshop or in the building yard.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 8: But the parents either stupidly paralyze that passion or do
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 8: not know how to utilize it. Most of them despise
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 8: manual work and prefer sending their children to the study
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 8: of Roman history or Franklin's teachings about saving money to
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 8: seeing them at work, which is good for the lower
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 8: classes only. They thus do their best to render subsequent
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 8: learning the more difficult. The so called division of labor
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 8: has grown under a system which condemned the masses to
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 8: toil all the day long and all the lifelong. At
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 8: the same wearisome kind of labor. But if we take
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 8: into account how few are the real producers of wealth
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 8: in our present society, and how squandered is their labor.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 8: We must recognize that Franklin was right in saying that
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 8: to work five hours a day would generally do for
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 8: supplying each member of a civilized nation with the comfort
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 8: now accessible for the few, only provided everybody took his
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 8: due share in production. But we have made some progress
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 8: since Franklin's times. More than one half of the working
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 8: day would thus remain to every one for the pursuit
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 8: of art, science, or any hobby he might prefer, and
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 8: his work in those fields would be the more profitable
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 8: if he spent the other half of the day in
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 8: productive work. If art and science were followed from mere inclination,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 8: not for mercantile purposes. Moreover, a community organized on the
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 8: principles of all being workers would be rich enough to
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 8: conclude that every man and woman, after having reached a
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 8: certain age, say of forty or more, ought to be
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 8: relieved from the moral obligation of taking a direct part
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 8: in the performance of the necessary manual work, so as
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 8: to be able to entirely devote himself well for herself
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 8: to whatever he or she chooses in the domain of
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 8: art or science, or any kind of work free pursuit.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 8: In new branches of art and knowledge. Free creation and
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 8: free development thus might be fully guaranteed, and such a
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 8: community would not know misery amidst wealth. It would not
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 8: know the duality of conscience, which permeates our life and
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 8: stifles every noble effort. It would freely take its flight
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 8: towards the highest regions of progress compatible with human nature.
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  Speaker 8: End of section eight. Recording by Stephen Harvey.
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  Speaker 4: Section nine of Mother Earth, Volume one, number four, June
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 4: nineteen six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 4: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 4: please visit LibriVox dot org. Mother Earth number four Motherhood
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  Speaker 4: and Marriage by Henriette Firth, translated from the German for
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: mother Earth by Annie Malley Hicks. Knowledge becomes understanding only
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: when its scope includes the origin, the development, and the
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 4: conclusion of things. Bachaffin rite to Motherhood. The futual endeavor
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: to extend its power through its own ideas of facts
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: and appearances, however unfamiliar these may seem, rather than be
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: influenced by a past and submerged civilization with the spirit
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: far removed from its own. There could hardly be a
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 4: more appropriate introduction to our remarks on motherhood and marriage
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: than these words of Bockhoven's. For there are few human
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 4: relations whose traditional stages, taking through outside causes and effects,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 4: and established form, have become eternal law, law, and sacrament,
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  Speaker 4: as is the case in the realm of sex relations,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 4: motherhood and marriage. For most people, these two conceptions are
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: inseparably bound together, or rather are in ratio connected, as
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 4: their ideas of morality and religion are synonymous. Marriage in
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: the Romish Church is a religious sacrament, and in the
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 4: collective Christian and Jewish worlds, the only sex relation acknowledged
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: as customary and possible is the one based on a
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: monogamous union. To work out logically, from this standpoint, the
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: only condition of motherhood which is socially justified is that
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 4: one which is the result of marital relations. In consequence,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 4: motherhood without the consent of the state or the benefit
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 4: of the clergy is just as logically condemned, and they
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: who thus sit in judgment flatter themselves to be the
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: profits of an advanced and enlightened era, engrafting their personal
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 4: feelings and rights on the religious and awful order of
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 4: the universe, or, in common parlance, and, as our introductions
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 4: so aptly put it, these good people wish to intend
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: the domination of the ideas of their own time, over
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: all the past and in to all the future. Marriage
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: seems to them an everlasting institution, a godly regulation through
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: which they can lend, to their individual bias, the dignity
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 4: of that which is humanly, purest and highest. Consequently, it
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 4: also seems to them that the present form of marriage
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 4: and its accompanying conditions for motherhood, resting as these do,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 4: on the mutual consent of God and Man, that these
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 4: are to be in all eternity the permanent form of
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 4: sex relations. But when we stop one moment only to
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: free ourselves from preconceived and obsolete ideas, and look at
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 4: motherhood and marriage from the calm an unprejudiced standpoint of
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 4: historical development and growth, how differently do these in reality appear.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: Many advanced thinkers have done this, and their views have
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 4: here and there found adherents. Not so, however, with the
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: average seeker for light and truth, who, if he wished
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: to succeed, must stem the tide of prejudiced opinion. But
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 4: the day has come when, if all signs do not fail,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: spring is here and a thousand and one buzz of
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 4: promise are pushing toward the light when a wider and
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: sainter understanding of motherhood and marriage is at hand. And
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: it is not an untimely spring either, not one which
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 4: the treacherous sun of January calls forth, only to blight
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 4: with later snow and frost. No, it is the real
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: light and life giving spring which comes when the sap
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: begins to run, when the sun calls up smoky mists
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: from out the brown earth, ready to enclose the seed
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: which shall bring forth so flowers and autumn fruits. And
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 4: this same brown, misty earth, What a different aspect shall
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: she present to her children, for whom conditions are so changed,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: with truer sex relations encompassing the ethical and spiritual leads
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 4: of the free individual. Then only will it be possible
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 4: to base these needs and demands on the surrounding world
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 4: of realities filled with material and spiritual phenomena. But first
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 4: it must be proven that the present form of marriage
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: and its effect on motherhood is not necessarily permanent, but,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: like all else, subject to natural development and change. What
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: indeed is the much talked of marriage bond of today,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 4: which is considered the cornerstone of both church and state.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 4: Is it something towards which the steps of development in
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 4: nature and history all go. No seriously minded person could
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 4: in truth make such a statement. In the plant and
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 4: animal kingdoms whose species e foak, as do those of
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 4: the human race, we find no examples of sex relations
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 4: to which the term marriage would apply, and this is
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 4: also true of the historical development of man and social conditions.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: It is not marriage, but motherhood which has given permanence
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 4: to sex relations wherever they appear. Motherhood, standing at the
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: source of life, with its creative and ever recreative force,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 4: Goddess is enthroned in solitude, surrounded not by time or place.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 4: These are the mothers about them, formed and formless, eternal
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 4: stability and endless change in images of all created life.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: Thus does Gerta describe the depths of being which enclose
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: the eternal mystery of motherhood, leading not into known but
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 4: unknown paths. And truly, how far have we strayed from
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: the path of true and natural feelings when we seek
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 4: to justify motherhood from the standpoint of expediency and custom.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 4: It is something in itself wholly, and it is own
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 4: reason for being I ask all mothers, all real mothers,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 4: when their child comes to them with eyes brimming with
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 4: childlike love and affection, against which all else counts for nod.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: I ask them, do they think whether that child is
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 4: legitimate or what is called an illegitimate child? No, the
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: joy of motherhood completely fills the heart. There is no
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 4: room for other feelings. And truly the answer comes. Nature
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 4: does not discriminate between the legitimate and illegitimate mothers, any
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 4: more than she labels the children brought into the world
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 4: as such. And this alone is the foundation to which
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 4: we must hold fast. Nature acknowledges motherhood only wisely, providing
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 4: for its needs. Not so marriage, which afore men have
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 4: given their sex relations and established from the standpoint of
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 4: social and economic exigencies, and consider it is consequently subject
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 4: to limitations and changes. Motherhood is an eternal force lying
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 4: at the root of life, not subject due to time
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: or change. End of Section nine.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 9: Section ten of Mother Earth, Volume one, number four, June
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 9: nineteen oh six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 9: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
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  Speaker 9: to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Anomica
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  Speaker 9: Mother Earth Number four object Lessons for Advocates of Governmental
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 9: Control by Arthur G. Everett NM. The best literary efforts
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 9: possible have been exhausted in a vain effort to convey
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 9: to those fortunately not in San Francisco on the morning
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 9: of April eighteenth, nineteen o six, what terrible things resulted
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 9: from the earthquake and the fire which left that city
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 9: a complete ruin. Likewise, has a Kodak and the camera,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 9: though busy at work while the flames roared around the
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 9: operator driving him from one vantage point to another, before
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 9: its resistless power, failed to depict in its entirety the
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 9: horrors the tragedies that followed in the wake of the
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 9: crumbling walls, the crackling flames that licked up alike palatial
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 9: mansions and the squalid homes of the poor. Not content
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 9: to feast upon the products of the forests of California
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 9: and the Eastern States alone, but with the strategy of
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 9: a warrior surrounded and penned within four walls, hundreds of
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 9: human beings, stalwart men, delicate women, and babes at the breast,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 9: who were then slowly roasted to death. Upon the funeral
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 9: pyre of San Francisco. Upon the minds and hearts of
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 9: the survivors alone, who walked between the walls of fire
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 9: those days escaped the frightful holocaust, But by a miracle,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 9: while loved ones perished before their eyes are written are
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 9: recorded too complete, too vivid, those terrible scenes, and fain
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 9: would they effaced from their minds, negative, those pictures of horrors,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 9: which now turned their dreams of the night into such
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 9: a frightful nightmare that they dread to close their eyes
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 9: in slumber. While the horrors of the earthquake and fire
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 9: were so terrible, yet there was something far worse. For
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 9: the earthquake and fire were beyond human control. But the
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 9: still worse acts of the soldiers into whose hands the
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 9: control of the city were delegated, could have been restrained
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 9: by the authorities, had they so chosen. Now that the
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 9: world is being made aware of the fact that the
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 9: soldiers ruthlessly shot down men and women, yes, women as
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 9: well as men. In one case, a woman was shot
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 9: down by a soldier because she dared to light a
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 9: match to see where to lay her little sick baby down,
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 9: and that without any justification other than the order of
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 9: their superiors, who likewise were so ordered by the authorities,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 9: a natural result of governmental control. Hence they are doing
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 9: all they can to controvert the facts regarding the brutal
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 9: murders and worse of the soldiers. In one case, they
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 9: went so far as to threaten the confiscation of a
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 9: printery if the editor did not call in and suppress
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 9: an issue in which was printed an article by a
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 9: marine telling of seeing the soldiers shoot down the inmates
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 9: of a hotel so surrounded by fire it seemed they
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 9: else must be burned up. The excuse the soldiers gave
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 9: for shooting them, and so the soldiers shot them down
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 9: to save them. The marine in this article did not
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 9: tell how many of those thus shot down by the
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 9: soldiers were only wounded and rithed in agony on the
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 9: increasing heated floor until the fiery fiend ended their misery
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 9: from the gunshot wounds. Brevity precludes going into details of
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 9: what is already a matter of history. Of the soldiers
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 9: shooting the use inmates of an improvised hospital that were
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 9: unable to be moved when the fire surrounded the building,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 9: of the soldiers shooting an old man for refusing to
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 9: work though so infirm with age that he had to
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 9: walk with a cane of the shooting of a red
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  Speaker 9: cross man, while in his otto on a deed of
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  Speaker 9: mercy bent of the man shot in the back for
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  Speaker 9: talking back to a soldier, and that after he had
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 9: turned away from the drunken brute. Of the shooting of
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 9: a man for having whiskey in his possession and refusing
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 9: to give it up, that the soldiers had plenty is
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 9: an evidence of the fact that a large percent were
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 9: so drunk that they could walk with but difficulty of
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 9: their insulting women, and even far worse than mere insult
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 9: also of shooting persons for looting while they themselves did
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 9: the same. All this, and much more and worse are
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  Speaker 9: known to be true, And, in the language of another
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  Speaker 9: writer on this same subject, strive as they may, the
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  Speaker 9: authorities will never be able to whitewash the military abominations
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  Speaker 9: inflicted upon San Francisco and Visas. In this regard, the
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 9: same writer says, most truly, the rulers of the state
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 9: furnished us an example of anarchy, according to their own
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 9: definition of the term. In times like these, it brings
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 9: out what is in the man, and these murders and
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 9: lesser brutalities of the soldiers while policing San Francisco tell
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  Speaker 9: us that the soldier is but an infuriated thug, ready
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 9: to do murder and rapine at the first opportunity. The
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 9: civic authorities of Oakland recognized this as a fact when
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 9: they finally allowed the reopening of the saloons, for the
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 9: barkeepers were specially interdicted from selling or giving liquor to soldiers.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 9: They were already loaded too heavy with murderous instincts and propensities,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 9: and it would not do to run the risk of
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 9: touching off that magazine of murder with the match of whiskey.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 9: These brutal butcheries and rapine by the soldiers while thus
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 9: in control of San Francisco, are the legitimate fruits of
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 9: governmental control, and it would be well for those who
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 9: are so strenuously advocate militarism, the true name for governmental control,
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  Speaker 9: to bear these things in mind. For such horrors would
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 9: be the daily menu under such system. For there is
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 9: lots of the savage in the most of us, and
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 9: it needs but to put a gun in the hands
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 9: of some and decorate them with brass buttons. With us
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 9: inscribed thereon to bring to the surface, like a plaster
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 9: on a boil, all the native savagery there is in
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 9: the man personally, I would prefer to run my chances
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 9: among the head hunters on the Isle of Borneo, then
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 9: among uniformed thugs protected and encouraged by martial law to
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 9: carry out their natural murderous propensities, as was the case
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 9: in San Francisco following the earthquake on the morning of
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 9: April eighteenth, nineteen oh six.
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  Speaker 5: End of section ten, Section eleven of Mother Earth, Volume one,
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  Speaker 5: number four, June nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 5: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 5: by Christine Lehmann Mother Earth number four Dignity Speaks by
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 5: John Francis Walter. I am the genius of war. My
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 5: standards the skull and the bones. I raise my voice,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 5: I stamp my foot, and legions rise out of the ground.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 5: Armies advance and retreat. Poisoned, diseased, and maimed. All that
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 5: is left is a gruesome aspect to the moonlight, the
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 5: ghouls and me. All this to a laudable end. The
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 5: general has his star Shylock, his four percent, the contractor's
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 5: wife a costly gem to enhance her vulgar charms, the
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 5: mother a harvest of tears, the wife a broken heart,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 5: the unborn babe a prenatal curse, while I have my
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 5: surfeit of blood. End of section eleven. Recording by Christine Lehman.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 7: Section twelve of Mother Earth, Volume one, number four, June
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 7: nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 7: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
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  Speaker 7: Mother Earth, number four. Dignity speaks hark ye, millions and tremble.
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  Speaker 7: I am more powerful than the law. Together with my
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 7: sister Respectability, I reach far beyond the boundary of the
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 7: authority of governments. I am supreme. Behold the miserable criminal
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 7: desperately resisting the brutal treatment of the police officer. I
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 7: shall force him to his knees. I shall subdue him.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 7: Enthroned upon the seat of justice, robed in the solemn
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 7: black of my sacred office, I shall break the rebel's
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 7: spirit tis in this that the highest refinement of tyranny
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 7: manifests itself. It enters into the very innermost depths of
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 7: the human mind, and there it ravages till its foul
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 7: breath has withered the last resistance of the unfortunate soul,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 7: and the consciousness of self is destroyed. This accomplished, the
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 7: man himself is dead.
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  Speaker 8: The law.
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  Speaker 7: How the timid masses cower at the mere mention of
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 7: my name, See them tremble as I enter the arena
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 7: of the legislature. The dignity of the law, the majesty
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 7: of the law. It must forever remain my great secret,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 7: that the law is the cerberus that guards the portals
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 7: of our earthly paradise against the common herd. We must
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 7: not be disturbed in our orgies. The law tis our
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 7: beastly greediness, our bloodthirsty rapacity, expressed in statutes, tis the
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 7: insatiety of the human beasts of prey, immortalized in jurisprudence.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 7: And I dignity sanctify all that. As a captain of industry,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 7: as a prince of commerce, or as a king of finance,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 7: I speak with solemn face of the heavy responsibilities that
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 7: rest upon those to whose care God, in his infinite wisdom,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 7: has entrusted the wealth of the universe. I speak with
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 7: zeal of the sacred duty of the rich to lend
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 7: a helping hand to our less fortunate brothers. I never
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 7: tire to emphasize the necessity of wise stewardship. In the meantime,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 7: I exploit the poor brothers, and I appropriate the lion's
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 7: share of the fruit of his labor. He is made
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 7: to pay me an usurious profit on my investments. I
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 7: fill my shops and factories with men, women and children,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 7: and I transmute the base metal of their bones into
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 7: the noble coin of the realm. My coffers grow fat,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 7: my slaves grow lean. But I acquire the reputation of
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 7: a public benefactor, a public spirited citizen, a noble humanitarian,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 7: as military commander, as a great general. I eulogize the
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 7: heroism and self sacrifice of my blind slaves and hirelings
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 7: that have returned from a successful campaign against a weaker nation.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 7: I speak of the great benefit that the success of
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 7: our arms will confer upon the people. I emphasize its
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 7: stimulating effect upon the progress of our country and upon
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 7: our civilization. Yet while my anointed lips pour forth these
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 7: solemn lies. My mind travels over the bloody fields of carnage.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 7: I behold the thousands of the slain, the mutilated bodies,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 7: the torn limbs, the streams of human blood. I stand
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 7: in the pulpit and call the faithful to prayer. I
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 7: thunder eternal curses upon the heads of the unbelievers. I
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 7: threaten the people with the torments of hell, and I
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 7: try to bribe them by the promise of Heaven. Believe,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 7: live and be saved, I cry, or else you will
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 7: die and be damned. For I am the visible representative
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 7: on earth of those invisible, extra mundane spirits whom man,
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 7: in his fear and ignorance created to his own continued
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 7: mental enslavement. Terrified sin lies prostrate at my feet. It
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 7: does not know that a sick conscience is a characteristic
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 7: trait of all slaves. It is the universal self accuser.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 7: Were the people individually and collectively to sin on a
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 7: grand scale, were they to refuse to be the puppets
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 7: of the man made idols, were that to happen, masters
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 7: and slaves would cease to be the tyrants of the
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 7: world are under great obligations to me. They must not
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 7: forget this, for if they should, I will unfold my
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 7: solemn black robe. I will smooth the hypocritical lines on
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 7: my face. Then shall the world behold all the filth
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 7: and corruption that I dignity hide. End of section twelve.
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  Speaker 7: Recording by Stephen Winterbourne.
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  Speaker 8: Section thirteen of Mother Earth Volume one, number four, June
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 8: nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 8: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
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  Speaker 8: to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Mother Earth number four.
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  Speaker 8: Paternalistic Government by Theodore Schroeder. Continuation here is solicitude with
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 8: a vengeance in a law I re quote from Wordsworth Donisthorpe.
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  Speaker 8: They shall have bows and arrows, and use the same
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  Speaker 8: off Sundays and holidays, and leave all playing at tennis
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 8: or football and other games called Koit's dice, casting of
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 8: stone kales, and other such importune games. Forasmuch as laborers
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  Speaker 8: and grooms keep greyhounds and other dogs, and on the holidays,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 8: when good Christians be at church hearing divine service, they
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  Speaker 8: go hunting in parks, warrens, and connegrees. It is ordained
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  Speaker 8: that no manner of layman which hath not lands to
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 8: the value of forty shillings a year, shall from henceforth
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 8: keep any greyhound or other dog to hunt, nor shall
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  Speaker 8: he use ferrets, nets, hays, hare pipes, nor cords, nor
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  Speaker 8: any engines for to take or destroy deer, hares, nor coney's,
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  Speaker 8: nor other gentlemen's game, and re pain of twelve months
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 8: imprisonment for the great dearth that is in many places
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  Speaker 8: of the realm of poultry. It is ordained that the
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  Speaker 8: price of a young capon shall not threepence, and of
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  Speaker 8: an old fourpence, of a hen, twopence of a pullet,
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  Speaker 8: a penny of a goose fourpence. Esquires and gentlemen under
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  Speaker 8: the estate of a knight shall not wear cloth of
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 8: a higher price than four and a half marks. They
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 8: shall wear no cloth of gold, nor silk, nor silver,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 8: nor no manner of clothing embroidered ring, button, nor brooch
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  Speaker 8: of gold, nor of silver, nor nothing of stone, nor
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  Speaker 8: no manner of fur. And their wives and daughters shall
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 8: be of the same condition as to their vesture and apparel,
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 8: without any turning up or purfl or apparel of gold, silver,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 8: nor of stone, because that servants and laborers will not,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 8: nor by long seasoned wood, serve and labor without outrageous
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 8: and excessive higher and much more than hath been given
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 8: to such servants and laborers in any time past, so
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 8: that for scarcity of the said servants and laborers, the
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 8: husbands and land tenants may not pay their rent nor
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 8: live upon their lands, to the great damage and loss.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 8: As well of the lords as of the commons, it
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 8: is accorded and assented that the bailiff for husbandry shall
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 8: take by the year's thirteen shillings threepence, and his clothing
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 8: once by the year at most the master hind ten shillings,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 8: the carter ten shillings, the shepherd ten shillings, the ox
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 8: herd six shillings eightpence, the swineherd six shillings, a woman
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 8: laborer six shillings a day six shillings, a driver of
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 8: the plow seven shillings at the most, and every other
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 8: laborer and servant according to his degree and less in
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 8: the country where less was wont to be given without clothing, courtesy,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 8: or other reward by covenant. If any give or take
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 8: by covenant more than is above specified, at the first
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 8: that they shall be thereof attained as well the givers.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 8: As the takers shall pay the value of the excess
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 8: so taken, and at the second time of their attainer
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  Speaker 8: the double value of such excess, and at the third
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 8: time the tral value of such excess. And if the
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  Speaker 8: taker so attained have nothing whereof to pay the said excess,
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  Speaker 8: he shall have forty days imprisonment. Our Puritan fathers had
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 8: the same paternal solicitude as all other tyrants. They made
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  Speaker 8: it a crime to disregard the Sabbath, or to deny
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 8: scripture or the truth of Christianity, or of the Trinity.
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  Speaker 8: In the Records of the Colony for September sixteen thirty nine,
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  Speaker 8: it is written, forasmuch as it is evident unto this
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  Speaker 8: court that the common custom of drinking to one another
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 8: is a mere useless ceremony, and draweth on that abominable
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 8: practice of drinking healths, and is also an occasion of
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  Speaker 8: much waste of the good creatures and of many other
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 8: sin et cetera. Then it declares that such is a
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  Speaker 8: reproach to a Christian commonwealth, wherein the least evils are
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  Speaker 8: not to be tolerated in the instructions of the Massachusetts
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 8: Company to Endicott and his council, the trade in tobacco
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 8: is only allowed to the old planters if they conceive
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 8: that they cannot do otherwise provide for their livelihood. It
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 8: is left to the discretion of Endicott in his council
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 8: to give way for the present to their planting of
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 8: it in such manner and with such restrictions as they
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  Speaker 8: may think fitting. But it is added we absolutely forbid
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  Speaker 8: the sale of it or the use of it by
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 8: any of our own, particular private men's servants, less upon
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 8: urgent occasion, for the benefit of health, and taken privately.
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  Speaker 8: In the Records of the Colony of Massachusetts, for September third,
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  Speaker 8: sixteen thirty four, it is ordered that vitulers or keepers
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  Speaker 8: of an ordinary shall not suffer any tobacco to be
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 8: taken into their house, under the penalty of five shillings
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  Speaker 8: for every offense, to be paid by the vituler, and
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 8: twelvepence by the party that it takes it. Further, it
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 8: is ordered that no person shall take tobacco publicly under
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 8: the penalty of two shillings sixpence, nor privately in his
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 8: own house or in the house of another, before strangers,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 8: and that two or more shall not take it together
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 8: anywhere under the sus aforesaid penalty for every offense. The
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 8: laws which our colonial fathers enacted against excess and bravery
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 8: in apparel are fitted to excite a smile. But there
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 8: is something more than ludicrous in the aspect of grave
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 8: law makers passing judgment at all a minutiae of dress,
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 8: and finding matter of a fence in an extra slash
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 8: or a needless garnature of lace. Against this last named article,
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 8: the zeal of our Puritan fathers seems to have been
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  Speaker 8: especially stirred up. In sixteen thirty four, it was ordered
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  Speaker 8: that no person, either man or woman, shall hereafter make
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 8: or buy any apparel either woolen, silk, or linen, with
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 8: any lace on it, silver, gold, silk, or thread, under
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 8: the penalty of forfeiture of such clothes. In sixteen thirty
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  Speaker 8: six it was enacted that no person after one month
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 8: shall make or sell any bone, lace, or other lace
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 8: to be worn upon any garment or linen, upon pain
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 8: of five shillings the yard for every yard of such
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 8: lace so made or sold or set on either shall
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 8: any tailor set any lace upon any garment, upon pain
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 8: of ten shillings for every offense, provided that binding or
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 8: small edging laces may be used upon garments or linen. Again,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 8: three years later a new edict was launched at this
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 8: obnoxious material. Because there is much complaint of the excessive
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 8: wearing of lace and other superfluities tending to little use
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 8: or benefit but to the nourishing of pride and the
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 8: exhausting of men's estates, and also of evil example to others.
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  Speaker 8: The law of sixteen thirty four was indeed repealed in
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 8: sixteen forty four, but in sixteen fifty one the Court,
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 8: to their great grief, are compelled to try their hand
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 8: at the work again. Though frankly confessing the impotence of
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 8: all previous legislation, and evidently awakening to a sense of
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 8: the inherent difficulties of the subject, we acknowledge it, they say,
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  Speaker 8: to be a matter of much difficulty, in regard of
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 8: the blindness of men's minds and the stubbornness of their
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 8: wills to set down exact rules to confine all sorts
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 8: of persons, and so leaving the wealthy classed to their
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 8: own conscience of fancy, they undertake to prescribe for the
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 8: people of mean condition. It was therefore ordered in sixteen
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 8: fifty one that no one whose estate is not of
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 8: the value of two hundred pounds shall wear any gold
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 8: or silver lace, or gold or silver buttons, or any
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 8: bone lace above two shillings per yard, or silk hoods
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 8: or scarce. And moreover, the selectmen of the town are
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 8: required to find anybody whom they shall judge to exceed
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 8: their rank and ability in the costliness or fashion of
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 8: their apparel in any respect. And finally, a law passed
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 8: in sixteen sixty two forbids children and servants to wear
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 8: any apparel exceeding the quality and condition of their persons
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 8: or estate, the Grand Jury and County Court of the
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 8: shire being judges of the offense. One provision of the
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 8: law sixteen thirty four against new and immodest fashions is
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  Speaker 8: too remarkable to be omitted. It reads as follows. Moreover,
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 8: it is agreed if any man shall judge the wearing
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 8: of any the foreigname, particulars, new fashions, or long hair,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 8: or anything of the like nature, to be uncomely or
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 8: prejudicial to the common good, and the party offending reform
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 8: not the same upon notice given him, then the next assistant,
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  Speaker 8: being informed thereof, shall have power to bind the party
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 8: so offending to answer it at the next court, if
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 8: the case so requires provided. And it is the meaning
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 8: of the Court that men and women shall have liberty
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 8: to wear out such apparel as they are now provided of,
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 8: except the immoderate great sleeves, slashed apparel, immoderate great veils,
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 8: long wings, et cetera. What intolerable tyranny of private surveillance
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 8: is indicated in the phrase what any man shall judge
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 8: to be uncomely. In the second letter of Instructions dated
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 8: June sixteen twenty nine to end Acott in his Council,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 8: they are exhorted to prevent the sale of strong waters
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 8: to the Indians, and to punish any of their own
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 8: people who shall become drunk in the use of them.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 8: In the preamble to a law enacted in sixteen forty six,
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 8: one is led to expect an enforcement of the modern
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  Speaker 8: principles of abstinence and prohibition, since, after declaring that drunkenness
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  Speaker 8: is a vice to be aboard of all nations, especially
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  Speaker 8: those which hold out and profess the Gospel of Christ, Jesus.
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  Speaker 8: He goes on to assert that any strict laws against
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  Speaker 8: the sin will not prevail unless the cause be taken away.
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  Speaker 8: But it would seem that the cause, in the eyes
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  Speaker 8: of our Puritan law makers, was an indiscriminate sale of
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  Speaker 8: spiritus drinks. For the law chiefly enacts that none but
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  Speaker 8: vintner's shall have permission to retail wine and strong water.
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  Speaker 8: It is also permitted to constables to search any tavern
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  Speaker 8: or even any private house suspected to sell wine. Contrary
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  Speaker 8: to this order. Moreover, no person is to drink or
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  Speaker 8: tipple at unseasonable times in houses of entertainment, the unseasonable
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  Speaker 8: time being declared to be after nine in the evening.
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  Speaker 8: But these laws were of small avail, For in sixteen
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  Speaker 8: forty eight the court is grieved to confess it is
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  Speaker 8: found by experience that a great quantity of wine is spent,
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  Speaker 8: and much thereof abuse to excess of drinking, and unto
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  Speaker 8: drunkenness itself, notwithstanding all the wholesome laws provided and published
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  Speaker 8: for the preventing thereof. It therefore orders that those who
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  Speaker 8: are authorized to sell wine and beer shall not harbor
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  Speaker 8: a drunkard in their houses, but shall forthwith give him
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  Speaker 8: up to be dealt with by the proper officer, under
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  Speaker 8: penalty of five pounds for disobedience. In sixteen thirty six,
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  Speaker 8: one Peter Bussaker was censured for drunkenness to be whipped
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  Speaker 8: and to have twenty stripes sharply inflicted, and find five
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  Speaker 8: pounds for slighting the magistrates, et cetera. In March sixteen
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  Speaker 8: thirty four, it was ordered that Robert Coles, for drunkenness
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  Speaker 8: by him committed at Roxbury, shall be disfranchised where about
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  Speaker 8: his neck, and so to hang upon his outward garment
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  Speaker 8: a d made of red cloth and set upon white.
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  Speaker 8: To continue this for a year, and not to leave
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  Speaker 8: it off at any time when he comes amongst company,
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  Speaker 8: under penalty of forty shillings for the first offense and
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  Speaker 8: five pounds for the second. What was the efficacy of
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  Speaker 8: the whipping or the scarlet letter? We are not informed.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, people capable of such legislation must frame fantastic
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  Speaker 8: definitions of liberty. Here is an old one whose sentiments
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 8: have been often parroted by unthinking humans of modern times.
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  Speaker 8: It reads, true liberty consists in a freedom of doing
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  Speaker 8: and receiving good under the protection of a government solicitous
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  Speaker 8: for the people's good. Such has always been the tyrant's
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  Speaker 8: conception of freedom, and, strange to say, finds many endorsements
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  Speaker 8: even to this day. It has recently been solemnly announced
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  Speaker 8: from the judicial bench that the only liberty an American
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  Speaker 8: has is the liberty to do the right thing. Of course,
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 8: according to other people's conception of right. That is precisely
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 8: the kind of tyranny or liberty that was enjoyed by
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 8: the victims of the paternalistic law above described persons afflicted
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 8: with newspaper intelligence expressed the conception that the individual has
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 8: no rights that government may not invade. By that hollow phrase,
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 8: liberty under the law, Liberty under the law is what
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  Speaker 8: the government ridden peasants of Russia enjoy. Liberty under the
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 8: law was the pleasure of those who expired with indescribable
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  Speaker 8: agony on the rack and amid the flames. Liberty under
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 8: the law was meeted out to the millions of victims
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  Speaker 8: of the witchcraft delusion. Liberty under the law was also
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 8: the liberty of our southern chattel slaves before as well
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 8: as after the war. Liberty under the law is the
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  Speaker 8: same idea of liberty which every tyrant has ever advanced.
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  Speaker 8: As for myself, I shouldn't object to a little liberty
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  Speaker 8: in spite of the law, when that does not conform
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  Speaker 8: to the rule of liberty as laid down by Herbert Spencer.
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  Speaker 8: In these words, every man has freedom to do all
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  Speaker 8: that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom
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  Speaker 8: of any other man of Section thirteen. Recording by Stephen Harvey,
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  Speaker 8: Section fourteen of Mother Earth, Volume one, number four, June
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  Speaker 8: nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 8: Aim and Tactics of the trade union Movement by Max Baginsky.
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  Speaker 8: Trade Unionism represents to the working man the most natural
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  Speaker 8: form of association with his fellow brother. This medium became
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  Speaker 8: a necessity to him when he was confronted by modern
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 8: industrialism and the power of capitalism. It dawned on him
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  Speaker 8: that the individual producer had not a shadow of a
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  Speaker 8: chance with the owner of the means of production, who,
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  Speaker 8: together with the economic power, enjoyed the protection of the
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  Speaker 8: state with its various weapons. Of warfare and coercion. In
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  Speaker 8: the face of such a giant master, all the appeals
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  Speaker 8: of the working man to the love of justice and
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 8: common humanity went up in smoke. The beginning of modern
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 8: industry found the producer in abject slavery and without the
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 8: understanding of an organized form of resistance. Exploitation reigned supreme, ever,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 8: seeking to sap the last drop of strength of its victims.
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  Speaker 8: No mercy for the common man, nor any consideration shown
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  Speaker 8: for his life, his health, growth, and development. Capitalism's only
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  Speaker 8: aim was the accumulation of profits, of wealth and power,
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  Speaker 8: and to this moloch everything else was ruthlessly sacrificed. This
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 8: spirit of accumulation did not admit of the right of
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  Speaker 8: the masses to think, feel, or demand. It merely considered
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 8: them a class of coolies, specially created, as it were,
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  Speaker 8: for their master's use. This notion is still in vogue
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  Speaker 8: to day, and if the conditions of the workers at
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 8: this moment are somewhat better, somewhat more endurable, it is
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  Speaker 8: not thanks to the milk of human kindness, of the
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 8: money power whatsoever the working men have achieved in the
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 8: way of better human conditions, a higher standard of living,
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 8: or a partial recognition of their rights they have wrenched
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 8: from their enemies through a hard and bitter struggle that
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 8: required great endurance, tremendous courage, and many sacrifices. The tendency
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 8: to treat the people as a herd of sheep, the
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 8: purpose of which is to serve as food for parasites,
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 8: is still very strong. But this tendency no longer goes unchallenged.
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  Speaker 8: It is being met with tremendous opposition. Increased social knowledge
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  Speaker 8: and revolutionary ideas have taught the working men to unite
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  Speaker 8: their efforts against those who have been comfortably seated on
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 8: their backs for centuries past. The first unskilled attempt on
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 8: the part of the people to gain a clear conception
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  Speaker 8: of their possition brought out blind hatred against the technical
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 8: methods of exploitation instead of hatred against the latter. In England,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 8: for instance, the workingmen considered machinery their deadly foe, to
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 8: be gotten rid of by all means. The simple axiom
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 8: that machinery factories mines Land, together with every other means
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  Speaker 8: of production, if only in the hands of the entire community,
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 8: would serve for the comfort and happiness of all. Instead
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  Speaker 8: of being a curse was a book of seven seals
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 8: for the people in those days, and even at this
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 8: late hour, this simple truth is entertained by a comparative few.
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  Speaker 8: Though more than one decade of socialistic and anarchistic enlightenment
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 8: has passed, the first trade unionistic attempts have met with
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 8: the same ferocious persecution that anarchism is being met with
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 8: to day. Even as to day capital avails itself of
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 8: the strongest weapons of government in its attack upon labor,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 8: the authorities were not slow in passing laws against trade unionism,
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 8: and every effort for organization was at that time considered
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 8: high treason. Organizers and all those who participated in strikes
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 8: were considered aids and betters of crime and conspiracy, punishable
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 8: with long years of imprisonment, and in many cases even
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 8: with death at the behest of money. The states sent
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 8: human bloodhounds on the trail of the man who in
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 8: any way was suspected in participating in the trade union movement.
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  Speaker 8: The most villainous and brutal methods were employed to counteract
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 8: the growth and success of labor organizations. The powers that
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 8: be recognized the great force that is contained in organized
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 8: labor as the means of the regeneration of society much
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 8: quicker than the working men themselves. They felt this force
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 8: hanging like a Damocle's sword over their heads, which danger
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 8: made them dread the future, and nothing was left undone
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 8: to nip this force in the bud. The fundamental principle
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 8: of trade unionism is of a revolutionary character, and as such,
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 8: it never was and never can be, a mere palliative
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 8: for the adjustment of labor to capital. Hence, it must
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 8: aim at the social and economic reconstruction of society. Many
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 8: labor leaders in this country, who consider their duty performed
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 8: when they sit themselves at the table of wealth and
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 8: authority trying to bring about peace and harmony between capital
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 8: and labor, might greatly profit by the history of trade
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 8: unionism and the various economic struggles it has fought. Only
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 8: ignorance can account for the birth of such superficial stuff
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 8: on the labor question as the book of John Mitchell
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  Speaker 8: that has been launched upon the market through loud and
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  Speaker 8: vulgar advertisement. Nothing could have disproved the fitness of mister
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  Speaker 8: Mitchell for a labor leader so drastically as this book,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 8: as already stated. The violent attempt to kill trade unionism
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 8: or its organizations have proven futile. The swelling tide of
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 8: the labor movement could not be stopped. The social and
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 8: economic problem brought to light by modern industry demanded a hearing,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 8: produced various theories and an extensive literature on the subject.
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  Speaker 8: A literature that spoke with a tongue of fire, of
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 8: the awful existence of the oppressed millions, their trials, their tribulations,
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 8: the uncertainty, the dangers surrounding them. It spoke of the
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 8: terribor results of their conditions, of the lives crippled, of
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 8: the hopes marred. A literature that demanded to know why
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  Speaker 8: it is that those who toil are condemned to want
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  Speaker 8: and poverty, while those who never produced were living in
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 8: affluence and extravagance. Well meaning people have even attempted to
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 8: prove that capital and labor are twins, and that in
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 8: order to maintain their common interests, they ought to live
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  Speaker 8: in harmony, or that if sister labor had agreements against
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 8: its big brother, it ought to be settled in a
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  Speaker 8: calm and peaceful way. Meanwhile, the dear sister was fleeced
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 8: and bled by brother Capital at every time the abused
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 8: and slaved, and outraged creature would turn to her brother
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 8: for justice. The dear fellow would whip the rebellious child
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 8: into submission. Along with the forcible subjection of organized labor.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 8: The minds of the people were confused and blurred by
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 8: the sugar coated promises of politicians who assured them that
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  Speaker 8: the trade unions ought to be organized by the law,
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  Speaker 8: and that all labor quarrels ought to be settled by
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 8: political and legal means. Indeed, legislatures even discussed a few
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 8: labor protective laws that either never saw the light of day,
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 8: or if really enacted, were set aside or overridden by
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 8: the possessing class as an obstacle to profit making. Every government,
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 8: no matter what political basis it rests upon, acts in
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 8: unison with wealth, and therefore it never passed any legislation
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  Speaker 8: in behalf of the producing element of the country that
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 8: would seriously benefit the great bulk of the people, or
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 8: in any way aim at any change of wage slaving
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 8: or economic subjugation. Every step of improvement the working men
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 8: have made is due solely to their own economic efforts,
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 8: and not to any legal or political aim ever given them,
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 8: and through their own endeavors. Only can ever come the
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 8: reconstruction of the economic and social conditions of society. Just
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 8: as little as the workingman can expect from legislative methods
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  Speaker 8: can they gain from trade unionistic efforts that attempt to
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 8: better economic conditions along the basic lines of the present
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 8: industrial system. The cardinal fault of the trade union movement
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 8: of this country lies in the fact that its hopes
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 8: and ideals rest upon the present social status. These ideals, ever,
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 8: rotate in the same circle, and therefore cannot bear intellectual
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 8: and material fruit. Condemned to pasture in the lean meadows
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 8: of capitalistic economy, trade unionism drags on a miserable existence,
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 8: satisfied with the crumbs that fall from the heavily laiden
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 8: tables of their lordly masters. True social science has amply
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 8: proved the futility of a reconciliation between the two opposing forces.
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 8: The existence of the one force representing possession, wealth and
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 8: power inevitably has a paralyzing effect upon its opposing force, Labour.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 8: Trade unionistic tactics of today unfortunately still travel the path
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 8: marked out for Labour by the powers that be, while
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 8: the majority of the Labour leaders waste the time paid
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 8: for by their organizations in listening to or discussing with
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 8: capitalists sweet nothings in the form of arbitration or reconciliation,
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 8: and are apparently unaware of the fundamental difference between the
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 8: body they represent and the powers they bow to. And
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 8: thus it happens that labour organizations are being brutally attacked,
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 8: that the militia and soldiers are maiming their brothers in
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 8: the various strike regions, while the leaders are being dined
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 8: and wined. The American Federation of Labour is lobbying in Washington,
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 8: begging for legal protection, and in return, venal justice sends
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 8: Winchester rifles and drunken militiamen into the disturbed Labour districts. Recently,
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 8: the American Federation of Labour made an alleged radical step
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 8: in deciding to put up Labour candidates for Congress, an
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  Speaker 8: old and threadbare political move, thereby such sacrificing whatever honest
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 8: men and clear heads they may have in their ranks.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 8: Such tactics are not worth a single drop of sweat
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  Speaker 8: of the working men, since they are not only contradictory
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  Speaker 8: to the basic principles of trade unionism, but even useless
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 8: and impractical pity for and indignation against the workers. Fill
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 8: one's soul at the spectacle of the ridiculous strike methods
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 8: so often employed, and that as often frustrate the possible
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 8: success of every large labor war. Or is it not
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 8: laughable if it were not so deadly serious that the
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 8: producers publicly discussed for months in advance where and when
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 8: they might strike, and therewith give the enemy a chance
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 8: to prepare his means of combat for months. The papers
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 8: of the money power bring long interviews with labor leaders,
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 8: giving detailed descriptions of the ways and means of the
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 8: proposed strikes, or the results of negotiations with this or
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 8: that mine magnate. The more often these negotiations are reported,
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 8: the more glory to the so called leaders. For the
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 8: more often their name appear in the papers, the more
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 8: reasonable the utterances of these gentlemen, which means that they
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 8: are neither fish nor flesh, neither warm nor cold. The
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 8: surer they grow of the sympathy of the most reactionary
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 8: element in the country, or of an invitation to the
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 8: White House to join the Chief Magistrate at dinner. Labor
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 8: leaders of such caliber fail to consider that Every strike
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 8: is a labor event, upon the success or failure of
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 8: which thousands of lives depend. Rather, do they see in
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 8: it an opportunity to push their own insignificant personalities into prominence.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 8: Instead of leading their organized hosts to victory, they disclose
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 8: their superficiality in their zeal not to injure their reputation
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 8: for respectability the workingmen, be it victory or defeat, they
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 8: must take up the reigns of every strike themselves. As
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 8: it is, they play the dupes of the shrewd attorneys
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 8: on both sides, unaware of the price the trickery and
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 8: cunning of these men cost them. As I said before,
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 8: or the unions negotiate strikes for days and weeks and
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 8: months beforehand, even allowing their men to work over time
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 8: in order to produce all the commodities to continue business
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 8: while the strike is going on. The printers, for instance,
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 8: worked late into the night on magazines that were being
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 8: got ready four months in advance. And the miners who
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 8: discussed the strike so long until every remnant of enthusiasm
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 8: was gone. What wonder then, that strikes fail as long
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 8: as the employer is in a position to say, strike
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 8: if you will I do not need you. I can
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 8: fill my orders. I know that hunger will drive you
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 8: back into the mine and factory. I can wait. There
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 8: is no hope for the success of the strike, such
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 8: have been the results of the legal trade union methods.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 8: The history of the labor struggle of this country shows
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 8: an incident that warrants the hope for an energetic revolutionary
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 8: trade union agitation. That is the eight Hour Movement of
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 8: eighteen eighty six, which culminated in the death of five
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 8: labor leaders. That movement contained the true element of the
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 8: proletarian and revolutionary spirit, the lack of which makes organized
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 8: labor of to day a ball in the hands of
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 8: selfish aspirants, known nothings and politicians. That which specifically characterized
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 8: the event of eighteen eighty six as a revolutionary factor
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 8: was the fact that the eight hour work day could
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 8: never be accomplished through lobbying with politicians, but through the
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 8: direct and economic weapon the general strike. The desire to
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 8: demonstrate the efficacy of this weapon gave birth to the
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 8: idea of celebrating the first of May as an appropriate
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 8: day for labour's festival. On that day, the working men
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 8: were to give the first practical demonstration of the power
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 8: of the general strike as an at least one day
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 8: protest against oppression and tyranny, and which day were gradually
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 8: to become the means for the final overthrow of economic
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 8: and social dependence. One may suggest that the tragedy of
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 8: the eleventh of November of eighteen eighty seven has stamped
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 8: the general strike as a futile method, But this is
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 8: not true. Of liberation cannot be put a stop to
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 8: by the brutality and rascality of the ruling powers. The
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 8: vicious anger and the wild hatred that strangled our brothers
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 8: in Chicago are the safest guarantee that their activity struck
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 8: a potentially fatal blow to government and capital. Neither mister
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 8: Mitchell nor mister Gompers run the risk of dying upon
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 8: the gallows of sacred capitalistic Justicia. Her ladyship is not
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 8: at all as blind as some suppose her to be.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 8: On the contrary, she has a very keen eye for
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  Speaker 8: all that may prove beneficial or dangerous to the society
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  Speaker 8: that draws its subsistence from the lives blood of its people.
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  Speaker 8: She has quite made up her mind that the gentlemen
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  Speaker 8: in the ranks of labor to day lead the people
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  Speaker 8: about in a circle, and never will urge them out
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  Speaker 8: into the open towards liberation. To be continued. End of
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  Speaker 8: section fourteen. Recording by Stephen.
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  Speaker 10: Harvey, Section fifteen of Mother Earth Volume one, number four,
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  Speaker 10: June nineteen oh six. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 10: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 10: Mike Overby, dedicated to all the police officers and all
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  Speaker 10: the landlords in the time of Coronavirus Mother Earth number
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  Speaker 10: four Refined Cruelty by Anna Mercy. Civilization has eliminated none
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  Speaker 10: of the qualities that marked the age of savagery. The
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  Speaker 10: cruelties which especially characterized primitive man, is exercised as much
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  Speaker 10: today as in the days of cannibalism. Civilization has been
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  Speaker 10: the refining agent of our qualities.
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  Speaker 9: Justice.
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  Speaker 10: As a number of chemicals put into a crucible are
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  Speaker 10: refined by a certain acid, while yet the original substances remain,
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  Speaker 10: though in different forms. So has civilization refined and remolded
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  Speaker 10: the crude elements of our nature, leaving the essence of
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  Speaker 10: our primitive qualities the same. The subtlety with which cruelty
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  Speaker 10: is exercised today makes of it a far reaching and
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  Speaker 10: far more destructive force than formally. Instead of attacking our
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 10: neighbors with sticks and stones and tomahawks and forcing them
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  Speaker 10: into captivity in order that they may work for us,
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  Speaker 10: we obtain the same or even better results by numerous
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  Speaker 10: subtle methods. We instill respect for law, wealth, and morality.
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  Speaker 10: We withdraw the land and other natural resources from general use.
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  Speaker 10: With a show of generous sentiment, we allow the lambs
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  Speaker 10: we have shorn to assist us in the shearing of
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 10: other lambs. Every morning and every evening we see a
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 10: long procession of men and women going or coming from
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  Speaker 10: the work at which they have given up their life
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  Speaker 10: force for the sake of a mere pittance. Look at
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 10: these men and women. There they go evidently free, no
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  Speaker 10: shackles on their hands or feet, No overseer keeps them
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  Speaker 10: in check by club or gun. There they go voluntarily
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  Speaker 10: to their prison factories, offices, stores. In the morning and
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 10: in the evening, when the glorious sun is hidden from sight,
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  Speaker 10: they come out again, haggard and worn, to creep to
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 10: their prison homes. When the savage desires to rob you.
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 10: He may attempt to strangle and maim you. But the
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 10: civilized man scorns such crude methods. He builds cheap tenements
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 10: in which you may gradually and surely choke to death,
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 10: And not satisfied with that, he with a great show
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 10: of kindness, prepares your foods for you, that they may slowly,
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 10: very slowly, but surely hasten your deliverance. Babies are not
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 10: frankly murdered anymore, but they are served with nice, adulterated milk,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 10: which accomplishes the same purpose in a quiet way. Under
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  Speaker 10: the name of law. Many atrocious crimes are committed. Imprisonment,
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 10: capital punishment, and war are yet crude in their methods.
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  Speaker 10: They are still susceptible of more refining. Here, cruelty has
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  Speaker 10: rather a thin garment on and needs to be covered
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  Speaker 10: up a little more. Even in our everyday relations with
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  Speaker 10: one another, we use many and varied forms of refined cruelty.
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  Speaker 10: When displeased. We no longer beat each other, but we
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  Speaker 10: use the subtler forces of sarcasm, irony, slander, neglect. We
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  Speaker 10: regard directness of rudeness, when in reality it is the
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 10: greatest kindness imaginable. Instead of being positive and direct in
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 10: our dealing with each other, we constantly exercise a passive cruelty,
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 10: in other words, the cruelty of refinement. We are evasive, delusive, subdued, falsified,
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 10: but we deceive with dignity, tell falsehoods, fluently, use words
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  Speaker 10: and cold behavior as daggers. Today we do not turn
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  Speaker 10: away an unwelcome visitor, but we announce that we are
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 10: not at home, or we slander him behind his back.
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  Speaker 10: When we love, we pretend to be modest and indifferent,
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  Speaker 10: while in an indirect way we attempt to build walls
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  Speaker 10: around the person we love. There is nothing free in
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  Speaker 10: the expression of our emotions, for we are subdued, crushed.
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  Speaker 10: We are civilized. Everything is sham and hypocrisy and hidden
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 10: daggers are everywhere, in one form or another. These daggers
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 10: are concealed under kindness, charity, benevolence, morally law, and there
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 10: are therefore difficult to deal with. The blades are thrust
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 10: into the back. You can feel them, but you cannot
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  Speaker 10: grapple with them. Our inherent cruelty is best illustrated in
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 10: the treatment we give those who are absolutely in our
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 10: power little children and the dumb animals? With what authority
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  Speaker 10: do we elicit respect and obedience from our little people?
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  Speaker 10: With rod in hand and with venomous tongues, we begin
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  Speaker 10: the process of subjugating and civilizing our little, free, emotional
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  Speaker 10: people in the name of quote unquote their highest good.
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  Speaker 10: Do we mold them to be actors, that they may
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  Speaker 10: properly enact the tragedy of life as we had enacted
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  Speaker 10: it before them. The dumb animals receive the cream of
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 10: our refined cruelty. In order to appear civilized, we drive
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 10: in carriages pulled by horses whose spinal columns have been docked,
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 10: whose necks are held stiff by tight check reins, whose
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 10: eyes are blinded by quote unquote fashionable devices. There used
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  Speaker 10: to be cannibalism and human sacrifices. There used to be
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 10: religious prostitution and the murder of weak children and of girls.
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  Speaker 10: There used to be bloody revenge and the slaughter of
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 10: whole populations, judicial tortures, quarterings, burnings at the stake, the
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 10: lash and slavery which have disappeared. But if we have
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 10: outlived these dreadful customs and institutions, this does not prove
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  Speaker 10: that There do not exist institutions and customs amongst us
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  Speaker 10: which have become as abhorrent to enlightened reason and conscience
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  Speaker 10: as those which have in their time been abolished and
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 10: have become for us only a dreadful remembrance. The way
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  Speaker 10: of human perfecting is endless, and at every moment of
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 10: historical life there are superstitions, deceits, pernicious and evil institutions
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  Speaker 10: already outlived by men and belonging to the past. There
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 10: are others which appear to us in the far mists
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 10: of the future, and there are some which we are
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 10: now living through and whose overliving forms the object of
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 10: our life. Such in our time is capital punishment in
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 10: all punishment in general, such is prostitution, such as the
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 10: work of militarism, war, and such is the nearest and
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  Speaker 10: most obvious evil private property in land. End of section fifteen.
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  Speaker 5: Section sixteen of Mother Earth, Volume one, number four June
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  Speaker 5: nineteen o six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 5: Mother Earth number sixteen. The Jungle a recension by Veritas.
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  Speaker 5: The Jungle, a recent story by Upton Sinclair, is a
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  Speaker 5: nightmare of horrors, of which the worst horror is that
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 5: it is not a phantom of the night, but claims
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  Speaker 5: to be true history of one phase of our twentieth
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  Speaker 5: century civilization. Nothing but the book itself could represent its
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  Speaker 5: own tragic power. In my opinion, it is the most
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  Speaker 5: terrible book ever written. It is, for the most part,
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  Speaker 5: a tale of the abattois, those unspeed ekable survivals in
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  Speaker 5: our Christendom, in which man reeks his savage and sensual
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 5: will on the lesser animals, and indirectly, it is a
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  Speaker 5: story of the moral abattoirs of politics, economics, society, religion,
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  Speaker 5: and the home, where the victims are of the species human,
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  Speaker 5: and where man's inhumanity to man is as selfish and
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 5: relentless as his age long cruelty to his brothers and
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 5: sisters just behind him in the great procession. Possibly the
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 5: title is inappropriate quote law of the pack, unquote, which
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  Speaker 5: is observed in the genuine jungle. But these human beasts
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 5: appear to have all of the jungle's vices and few
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 5: of its virtues. The author might have called his history
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 5: the slaughter house, or perhaps plain hell. It is a
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  Speaker 5: common saying about a packing house. Quote, we use all
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  Speaker 5: of the hog except the squeal. Unquote. This author uses
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  Speaker 5: the squeal, or rather the wild death shrieks of agony,
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  Speaker 5: of the ten millions of living creatures tortured to death
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  Speaker 5: every year in Chicago and the other tens of millions elsewhere,
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 5: to pander to the old brutal inhuman thirst of humanity
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  Speaker 5: for a diet of blood. The billions of the slain
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 5: have found a voice at last. And if I mistake not,
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 5: this cry of anguish from the killing beds shall not
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  Speaker 5: sound on until men whose ancestors once were cannibals shall
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 5: cease to devour even the corpses of their murdered animal relatives.
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  Speaker 5: But while the jungle will undoubtedly make more vegetarians, it
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 5: would take more than the practice of universal vegetarianism to
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 5: cause the book to fulfill its mission for the US.
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  Speaker 5: This is a story of civilizations, inferno, and of the
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 5: crisis of the world, a recital of conditions for which,
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 5: when once comprehended, there can be no remedy but the
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 5: revolution of revolutions. The event toward which the ages ran
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 5: the establishment of a genuine political, industrial and social democracy
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  Speaker 5: Footnote two. If the story be dramatized, and missus Fiske
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  Speaker 5: take the part of Ona, her presentation will make tests
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  Speaker 5: seem like a pastoral idol. In comparison, the book is
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 5: great even from a political standpoint. But more than this,
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 5: it is a great moral appeal. Not in Victor Hugo
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 5: or Charles Dickens does the moral passion burn with purer
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  Speaker 5: or intenser light than in these pages. I should not
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  Speaker 5: advise children or very delicately constituted women to read it.
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  Speaker 5: I have said it is a book of horrors. I
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 5: started to mark the passages of peculiar tragedy and found
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 5: that I was marking every page. And yet it is
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 5: a justifiable book and a necessary book. The author tells
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  Speaker 5: as facts the story of diseased meat and worse, the
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 5: preparation in the night time of the bodies of the
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 5: cattle which have died from known and unknown causes before
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 5: reaching the slaughter pens, and the distribution of the effects
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 5: with the rest of the intentional killing of the day.
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 5: He describes the preparation of embalmed beef from cattle covered
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 5: with boils. He even narrates the story of quote men
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  Speaker 5: who fell into the vats unquote, and quote sometimes they
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 5: would be overlooked for days till all but the bones
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 5: of them had gone out to the world. As Durham's
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 5: pure leaf life lard unquote. He writes of the making
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  Speaker 5: of smoked sausage out of waste potatoes by the use
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  Speaker 5: of chemicals, and out of spoiled meat as well. And
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 5: he further speaks of rats which were quote nuisances, and
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  Speaker 5: the packers would put poisoned bread out for them. They
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 5: would die, and then rats, bread and meat would go
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 5: into the hoppers together. This is no fairy story and
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 5: no joke. The meat would be shoveled into carts, and
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  Speaker 5: the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to
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  Speaker 5: lift out a rat, even when he saw one. There
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 5: were things which went into the sausage in comparison with
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 5: which a poisoned rat was a tidbit unquote. But the
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 5: worst of the story is a tale of the condition
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  Speaker 5: of the workers at packing town and elsewhere. It is
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  Speaker 5: the story of strong men who justly hated their work,
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 5: of men for no fault of theirs, Their own, cast
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  Speaker 5: out in middle life, to die, of weeping children driven
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  Speaker 5: with whips to their ignoble toil, of disease producing conditions
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  Speaker 5: in winter only surpassed by the deadly summer, of people
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  Speaker 5: working with their feet upon the ice, and their heads
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  Speaker 5: enveloped in hot steam. Of the perpetual stench which infests
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 5: their nostrils, the sores which universally covered their bodies. Of
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 5: the terrible pace set by the continuals speeding up of
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 5: the pacemakers, goaded to a pitch of frenzy, of accidents
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 5: commonplace in every family. Of the garbage pile of refuse
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 5: from the tables of more fortunate citizens, from which many
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 5: were forced to satisfy their hunger. Of the terrors of
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 5: the blacklist, the shut down, the strike, and the lockout,
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 5: and of the universal swindle, whether a man bought a
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 5: house or dogs, tea, coffee, sugar or flour. It is
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  Speaker 5: still further a story of the moral enormities and monstrosities
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 5: of the almost universal quote. The plants honeycombed with rottenness.
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  Speaker 5: The bosses grafted off the men, and they grafted off
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 5: each other, And some day the superintendent would find out
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 5: about the boss and then he would graft off the boss.
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  Speaker 6: Quote.
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  Speaker 5: When the men were set to perform some peculiarly immoral act,
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 5: they would say, quote, now we are working for the
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 5: church unquote, referring to the benefactions of the proprietors to
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 5: religious institutions. It tells the story of the training of
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 5: the children in vice, of girls forced into immorality, so
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  Speaker 5: that a girl without virtue would stand a better chance
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  Speaker 5: than a decent one. It is a tale of the
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  Speaker 5: terrible ending of old Antennae by saltpeter poisoning of Jonas.
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  Speaker 5: No one knows how possibly he fell into the vats
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 5: of little Cristophorus, by convulsions of little Antennas, by falling
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  Speaker 5: into a pit before the door of his house of Maria,
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 5: in a house of shame, of Stanislovas, who was eaten
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 5: by rats, and of beautiful little Ona, to the description
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 5: of whose ending no other than the author's pen could
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 5: do justice. The book shows how men graft everywhere, not
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 5: only in the packing house, but how the slime of
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 5: the serpent is over almost all of our modern commercial
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 5: and political practices. No one can justly hold the meat
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 5: kings responsible for all of this. Nothing less than a
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 5: thorough reconstruction of our whole social organism will suffice. Palliative
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 5: philanthropy is, as the author says, quote, like standing upon
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 5: the brink of the pit of hell and throwing snowballs
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 5: in to lower the temperature.
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  Speaker 6: Quote.
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  Speaker 5: The Jungle is the boiling over of our social volcano
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  Speaker 5: and shows us what is in it. It is a
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 5: danger signal. We are all indicted and must stand our trial.
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 5: There rests upon us the obligation to ascertain the facts.
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  Speaker 5: The author of The Jungle lived in packing town for months,
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 5: and the eminently respectable publishers who are now issuing the
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 5: book sent a shrewd lawyer to Chicago to report as
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 5: to whether the statements in it were exaggerated, and his
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 5: report confirmed the assertions of the author. This book is
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 5: a call to immediate action. The Lithuanian hero found his
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 5: solution of the problems suggested in socialism. The solution lies
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 5: either in that direction or in something better. And it
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 5: behooves those who warn us against socialistic experiments to tell
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 5: us if they know of any other effective remedy. Surely
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 5: all thoughtful men should study these theories of social redemption
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 5: and learn why their advocates claim that putting them in
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 5: practice would modify or abolish the evils of our modern conditions.
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 5: Quote the masters, lords and rulers of all lands unquote,
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 5: the thinkers and workers of our time must speedily give
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 5: themselves to the understanding and application of some adequate remedy,
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 5: or there will be blood, woe, and tears, almost without end.
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  Speaker 5: Quote when this dumb terror shall reply to God after
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 5: the silence of the centuries unquote footnote two. Genuine or
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 5: not genuine, We live right now in a democracy. If
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  Speaker 5: in spite of that, such diabolical crimes as Sinclair describes them,
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 5: are committed daily, then this only proves that democracy is
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 5: no panacea for them. Why should it if criminals of
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 5: the armor kind realize prophets out of their wholesale poisoning
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 5: of such dimensions that they can easily buy all the
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 5: glory of the people's sovereignty. Editor end of section sixteen.
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  Speaker 5: Recording by Christine Lehmann.
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 11: Section seventeen of Mutter Earth, volume one, number four, June
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 11: nineteen o six. This is a libribox recording. All Liberbox
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 11: recordings are in a public domain. For more information or
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• 2:32:01
  Speaker 11: Pinetta more Earth No. Four The Game is Up by
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 11: Sadaki chi Harman. Hello Morrison, May I come in? The door?
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 11: Stood slightly ayejar Morrison came to the door. The complexion
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 11: of his face was sallow, and his eyes had a
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 11: peculiar look. He recognized his visitor, hesitated for a moment
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 11: whether he should admit him, then opened the door and
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 11: made a sort of mock courtesy cleaning up. The tall
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 11: ling man asked as he entered the little hall room. Yes,
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 11: and a wistful smile glidded over Morrison's pell face, cleaning
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 11: up for good. The room had a peculiar appearance. There
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 11: was no disorder, and yet a lot of things were
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 11: lying about. It looked as if the lodger intended to
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 11: go away on a long journey and had tried to
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 11: straighten up matters previous to his departure. The visitor gazed
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 11: curiously about the room. He had a strange foreboding, but
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 11: forced himself to ask in ejocular mood, going to Egypt again,
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 11: farther than that this time, But it won't take so long.
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 11: The journey I am contemplating will be over by tomorrow evening.
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 11: I hope, what do you mean the game is up?
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 11: The tall in man made no ima reply. He merrely
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 11: gazed steadily into the face of his friend. He had
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 11: always suspected that he would come to this some day.
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 11: He really wondered that Morrison had not done it long ago.
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 11: If any man had a right to this pause of
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 11: his life, it was surely Morrison. He had endured more
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 11: than most human beings. His case was absolutely hopeless. Is
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 11: there no way out of it? Morrison shook his head.
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 11: He wanted to say something, but his boys failed him.
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  Speaker 11: He stepped to the dresser near the window, looked into
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  Speaker 11: the mirror, and arranged his fade at Fred bair Tye.
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  Speaker 11: It was pitiful to see how shabbily he was dressed.
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  Speaker 11: He no longer said the fashion as in his stays
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  Speaker 11: of success years ago in Boston, good morning, help you,
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  Speaker 11: and the toweling visitor fumbling his pockets. Although fairly well dressed,
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 11: he was hard up most of the time and only
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  Speaker 11: ventured to broach the subject as he just happened to
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  Speaker 11: have a few dollars to spare that day. No, what
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  Speaker 11: good would the little do that you could give me?
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  Speaker 11: And he continued to adjust matters and tuck things away
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  Speaker 11: in his trunk. There you are right again, not much,
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  Speaker 11: but I want forty dollars on the track. I sometimes
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  Speaker 11: go out there, he added, as a sort of excuse,
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  Speaker 11: as it is impossible to live in literature alone. I
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  Speaker 11: could spare ten. Can you really spare them? I won't
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  Speaker 11: be able to return them. You know, I would like
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  Speaker 11: to have them. I suppose you would refuse to let
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  Speaker 11: me buy a revolver with them. I will have all
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  Speaker 11: sorts of poisons, he pointed out to some little bottles,
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  Speaker 11: but I would prefer not to use them. It wouldn't
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  Speaker 11: be esthetical. And then I want to go away to
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  Speaker 11: some place where nobody knows me. I don't want to
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  Speaker 11: be identified. The literary man slowly pulled a small roll
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  Speaker 11: out of his pocket. He thought of his wife and children,
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  Speaker 11: who needed the money. It was really fully he should
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 11: have made an offer. Well, he was probably the last
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 11: service he could render. His friend. Morrison was serious about
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 11: his departure. There was no doubt about that. Here, Morrison answered,
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  Speaker 11: though he did not take the money right away. He
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 11: looked about ussemiddly, as in the dream. This was friendship. Indeed,
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 11: he had not believed that anybody could so completely enter
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  Speaker 11: another man's state of mind. Not a word of opposition.
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  Speaker 11: This was glorious. They had known each other for more
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  Speaker 11: than seventeen years. They had often drifted apart, and somehow
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  Speaker 11: all had always met again. They had never been intimate.
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  Speaker 11: They had merely respected each other for the world they
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 11: had accomplished each in his profession. Although they differed larger
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 11: in ideas. Morrison was a sculpture and almost an ancient
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 11: Greek in his feelings for the beauty of lines. The
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  Speaker 11: tall in man, on the other hand, was a strange
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  Speaker 11: mixture of a visionary and a brutal realist. They both
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 11: were cynics, however, that found life rather futile. With the
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 11: literary man, this was merely a theoretical viewpoint, while Morrison
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 11: was really embittered with life. The incidents of this afternoon
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 11: had surprised him. He was deeply moved and felt as
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  Speaker 11: if he should give utter ends to his emotions. He
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  Speaker 11: remembered that his adetitude towards his friend had been rather
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  Speaker 11: arrogant at times. He now felt sorry for it, But
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 11: somehow he could not form his sentiments and thoughts into
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  Speaker 11: coherent sentences. Thanks, He simply repeated, has anybody seen you
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  Speaker 11: entered the house?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 11: The door was opened and I walked right up. Why
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  Speaker 11: do you ask? I don't want anybody to be mixed
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 11: up in this affair, as it only concerns me. The
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  Speaker 11: literary man smiled. Could any man influence you one way
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  Speaker 11: or another? As far as I can make out, you
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  Speaker 11: are beyond mortal influence. A pause ensued. Morrison threw the
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  Speaker 11: last thing into his trunk. Well, I am ready everything
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  Speaker 11: is settled up about your statues Shaw Morrison shrugged his shoulders.
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  Speaker 11: Nobody was interested in them while I lived? What should
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 11: I bought it?
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  Speaker 3: To?
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  Speaker 11: Think? What might become of them after my death? The
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 11: author nodded and scowled at the same time. He was
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 11: not satisfied with the answer, but there were still other
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 11: things on his mind. He was used to analyze everything
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 11: to shreds and tatters. Are you not afraid that you
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 11: might make a budge the whole job? Morrison weighed the
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 11: question in his mind, then shook his head and answered, no,
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  Speaker 11: there is hardly a chance for it. Now I have
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 11: been tuned up to it, train myself to it, so
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  Speaker 11: to speak. The fruit is ripe. It has to fall.
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  Speaker 11: It would be awful, though, he added, with an atherthought.
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  Speaker 11: Do you remember my emerald ring? I had to pawn it,
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 11: but I kept the poison, which was hidden under the stunt.
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 11: I would take that if anything goes wrong. Would you
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  Speaker 11: object to my company, asked the talling man. I mean
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  Speaker 11: until all is over. I myself. I'm not quite ready
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 11: yet for any such heroical performances. Oh, don't think of it,
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 11: the contrare ejaculated, notwithstanding the tone of his voice indicating
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  Speaker 11: that he would not object, that he would even prefer
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 11: a troubling companion for the last few hours of his life. Well,
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 11: I will go with you. Where are you going to
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 11: New Haven? It's a nice trip. Morrison carefully brushed his
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 11: hair and clothes. There came a flush on his face
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 11: as he realized how shavvy his clothes really were. The
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 11: toiling man was delicate enough to look away as if
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  Speaker 11: he had not noticed anything. A few moments later they
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 11: left the room. Morrison locked the door, and they went
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 11: out into the street. They did not talk much, merely
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 11: commonplace phrases that did not bear upon the subject. Both
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 11: were occupied with their own thoughts and strange thoughts it
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 11: most have been. They deliciously strolled to a store of
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 11: sporting outfits, but o a bulbaring Cartridges had their shoes
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 11: shine in the next corner, and slowly wndered away toward
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 11: the depot. Directions were almost mechanical. Suicide is an attack
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 11: of insanity, a sort of mental plague. If one has
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 11: caught the fever, one is doomed. There is no escape
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 11: from it. At the same time, it is contagious. The
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 11: literary man was somewhat infected by it. All his interests
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 11: in life seemed to be dulled, obliterated as it were.
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 11: He could only think the one thought, Morrison is going
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 11: to kill himself. But who knows? He may, after all
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 11: turn up next week with excuse that he had changed
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 11: his mind. No, not he It was really too bad. Morrison,
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 11: on the other hand, grew quite cheerful with him. The
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 11: idea that he would do it have become so matter
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  Speaker 11: of fact that he ceased to think of it. Nothing
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 11: could influence him any more, even if some vague current
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 11: of soul activity should revolt. At the very last moment,
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 11: he was certain that his hand would mechanically perform the task.
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 11: Only one return ticket who whispered as he approached the
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 11: ticket office. Oh, I almost forgot replying his friend. During
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 11: the trip, they silently sad to pause each other, smoking
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 11: now and then Morrison pointed out the beautiful sights. He
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 11: seemed to be familiar with the scenery. At their arrival
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 11: in Newhaven at dusk a day at once, I journed
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 11: to a hotel and sat down on the table in
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 11: the bar room. They began to talk about art. They
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 11: discussed commercialism, the lack of appreciation, and the vanity of
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 11: all serious work, at least as far as art is concerned.
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 11: They began to relay reminiscences of their studying years and
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 11: rebew the hobs and ambitience to the youth. If they
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 11: had been realized what wonders they would have accomplished. I
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 11: gave the other side a chance. They never responded. I
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 11: waited for ten long years, and now it's all up.
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 11: Let us have another drink, waiter the last. They clinked glasses,
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 11: and now for this and departure. As in the good
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 11: old times, when Cogitius, this iron ache preached suicide in Alexandria,
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 11: they arose he had grown dark. They son turned forth
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 11: into the night, Morrison seemed to know where he was going.
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 11: I once spent very pleasant days out here, he explained, years.
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 11: I hardly remember how many years ago. After that, they
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 11: did not converse any more. They finally arrived at a
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 11: beautiful avenue of all elms that extended far into the country.
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 11: Its deep, dark pista was lit up only by the
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 11: shimmer of a distant lake. Morrison stopped, seized his friend's hand,
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 11: shook it, and said a firm voice, goodbye, goodbye, and
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 11: Morrison walked away. It was so dark that in a
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 11: few moments his form became invisible. Only his footsteps could
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 11: still be heard. They grew fainter and fainter. The tall
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 11: man stared after his friend into the blackness of the night.
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 11: His eyes grew dim. A few rain drops fell on
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 11: his face and hands. I hope in won't rain, he murmured.
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 11: It might make time more difficult, but no, the sky
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 11: is clear. Then he slightly bent forward and listened eagerly.
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 11: Everything was calm, motionless, as in suspense. Nobody passed through
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 11: the avenue. Only in the adjoining side streets pedestrians flitted
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 11: by like gusts. So this was the end. After having
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 11: struggled bravely for years, after living up to high ideals
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 11: as well as one could, to go down along Dark Avenue,
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 11: A falling star flashed across the treetops. The tall lean
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 11: man pressed his hand to his heart. Although he was
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 11: not certain of having heard a report, he felt that
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 11: his friend had arrived at the goal of his life's journey.
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  Speaker 11: The game was up. End of Section seventeen, recording by
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 11: Mario Beinella. End of Modern Earth, Volume one, No. Four,
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  Speaker 11: June nineteen o six.
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  Speaker 4: How do you think